Ciranda De Pedra by Lygia Fagundes Telles

Set in a conservative, upper‑class Brazilian milieu, the novel follows a young woman’s painful coming-of-age as family rivalries, suppressed desires and hidden scandals surface; through intimate psychological portraits and tense domestic conflicts she confronts love, betrayal and the social hypocrisies that shape and fracture her identity, ultimately revealing how memory, longing and repression govern the lives of those around her.