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Maria Bráulia Munhoz thought settling down with a well-off husband in a house of her own would inaugurate a life of freedom and contentment, but she soon discovered married life to be a series of tiresome formalities. And little happened with her husband, a much older judge, once the lights went out. Now the widowed Maria lives alone in her apartment in São Paulo, her only companions the scheming nephew of her deceased husband, Julião, and a loyal maid. "Family Heirlooms", a searingly brilliant novella from one of Brazil's modern masters, follows the journey of Maria Bráulia and her rubies through the disappearing world of bourgeois respectability. Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares was born in 1930 in São Paulo, Brazil. She is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, whose works include: Termos de Comparação (1974), which was awarded the literature prize by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics; and O Nome do Bispo (1985), winner of the Mercedes-Benz Prize in Literature and forthcoming from Frisch & Co. in 2015 as The Name of the Bishop. Family Heirlooms (1990) was awarded Brazil's highest literary honor, the Jabuti Prize, and appears here for the first time in English.