Air, which you breathe

The awkward orphan Dorish works in the kitchen in the estate of the sugar planter in the north of Brazil. She knows nothing but the master’s house and the fields surrounding it with a sugarcane. But once her peer appears in the house, the owner’s daughter is a grace, beautiful, smart and impudent. Dorish and Grase, girls from different worlds, are connected by loneliness in a dumb corner of Brazil, divorced from the whole world. Music lives in each of them. One has a miraculous voice of a bird"s singer, and the other composes poetry to the beat of the melodies that sound inside it. And both dream of plunging into the big world. Music will become their common passion, the basis of their friendship and rivalry, and the only way to escape from the life to which they seemed sentenced. And once it succeeds. Their intimate, changeable connection for a couple with music will determine their fate. A novel covering several decades, from the 1930s to the present day, moving from the dense Brazilian outback to the dangerous Rio de Janeiro sparkling with lights, and then to Hollywood, full of music. Samba, rolling and chamber, loud and barely audible, sounds from each page of this book.

Press about the book
The magnificent saga about friendship and loss. The two main characters of this novel gain the connection of the depths over the years that I met for the last time in my brilliant friend Elena Ferrante. But Roman Francish Piblz is absolutely original and is not like anything. NPR
Piblz tells the story of complex, dramatic relations between two women associated with each other from early childhood. The finest nuances, outbreaks of intimacy, the failures of alienation are as if laid in this book on the melody of a sophisticated samba. The National Book Review
an enveloping book. Piblz is convincing in the image of the changeable shurry of female friendship, but the main character is not two girls associated with each other since childhood, but a magnificent Brazilian samba. PEOPLE
Echoes of Elena Ferranta sound in this luxurious and unusual saga, as if laid to music. O, The Oprah Magazine
I am glad to get acquainted with Grass and Dorish, two brave young women who dared to leave the destinies he had prepared in search of a dream. This novel is filled with numerous fragments of wisdom, which flare up as if specifically for you at the right time. In this story about friendship in a length of life, one cannot but fall in love, reading it involuntarily recall those people and the music that formed you. Diane Guerrerero
A miserable orphan, a rich heiress, a fate resembling an American slides, and a time that makes a relationship only stronger. Glamor
Delicate, sharp, musical novel about friendship, love and ambitions, illuminated by the glamorous radiance of the Golden Age. The perfect replenishment of a collection of good fiction. Library Journal
The book is almost moving in your hands, it is so musical both in terms of the story told and in terms of style. NPR Alt.

Latino
Samb melodies sound in one rhythm with a winding, difficult history of ambitions, a search for themselves, friendship, betrayal and atonement. An extremely cinematic novel that gives both luxurious panoramic species and lyrical, intimate close -ups. Kirkus