About
Counselor Vale died at seven o'clock on the evening of 25 April 1859. He died of a fulminating apoplexy, shortly after taking a nap, as he used to say, and as he was getting ready to go play the usual game of whirlwind. This could be another common obituary announcement, but for young Helen it, was an earthquake that devastated her life and changed her world. Narrated in third person, this Machadian novel set during the 19th century translates the surprises and misfortunes of a forbidden love.