Dom Casmurro

I wasn’t familiar with this Brazilian novel from 1899 until Peter Heller put it on my radar. Machado de Assis is considered to be one of the most important writers in Brazilian literature and this is considered to be his greatest work. It’s a classic adultery tale, following Bento, our unreliable narrator, who believes his wife has done him wrong. Was she unfaithful or is Bento’s paranoid jealousy steering him wrong? Despite the subject matter, this is darkly funny and I’m glad I gave it a chance.