Cecilia. The Women We Loved

Cecilia is a novel about memory, desire, and that stubborn form of love that continues even after life has already chosen another direction. Between Milan, Vicenza, Lake Como, Saint-Moritz, Provence, and Saint-Barth, Octávio Viana tells the story of a woman who refuses to be possessed or explained: intelligent, elegant, cruel when necessary, free even when she wounds. Cecilia is lover, obsession, character, and scar; a presence capable of changing the gravity of a room and remaining in a man's mind long after the end.
This book does not seek innocence. It seeks the imperfect truth of what remains after love: jealousy, social class, sex, betrayal, male vanity, and the almost indecent need to turn a loss into literature. An intimate and fierce novel about a woman, about the women we love, and about what they continue to write inside us.