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A review by theoriginalbia
O Último Cais by Helena Marques
4.0
This book was very good and also quite empowering.
It follows Marcos and Raquel as well as their very big and complicated family. The story takes place in Madeira, my hometown, which made the book even more interesting for me, and in the British Guiana in the end of the 19th century. The book focuses especially in the women of the family and the women the members of the family know and meet. These are not regular women, however, these are women who fought for themselves and for their rights and interests, these are women who, in one way or another, stood up and fought against society's idea of how they should behave and what they could or couldn't do.
With a terrible plot twist in the middle of the book which makes you consider how you'll get through the rest of it, the book really invites the reader to think about feminism and the importance of gender equality. Moreover, and i believe especially for women, it reminds us that a lot of people, not only women, but people in general have fought very bravely and with extremely harsh consequences for all the right we have today. But that doesn't mean we have won the war, only some, very important, battles, but not the war. So, for those people, it is our duty to be as brave as they were, to speak up, to stand by the rights they've conquered for us and to make sure the future generations have more to defend then we had.
It follows Marcos and Raquel as well as their very big and complicated family. The story takes place in Madeira, my hometown, which made the book even more interesting for me, and in the British Guiana in the end of the 19th century. The book focuses especially in the women of the family and the women the members of the family know and meet. These are not regular women, however, these are women who fought for themselves and for their rights and interests, these are women who, in one way or another, stood up and fought against society's idea of how they should behave and what they could or couldn't do.
With a terrible plot twist in the middle of the book which makes you consider how you'll get through the rest of it, the book really invites the reader to think about feminism and the importance of gender equality. Moreover, and i believe especially for women, it reminds us that a lot of people, not only women, but people in general have fought very bravely and with extremely harsh consequences for all the right we have today. But that doesn't mean we have won the war, only some, very important, battles, but not the war. So, for those people, it is our duty to be as brave as they were, to speak up, to stand by the rights they've conquered for us and to make sure the future generations have more to defend then we had.