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Reading · B1

A volta do Lucas

B1281 wordsshort storyRibeirão da Ilha, Florianópolis (Santa Catarina) — a fishing and oyster-farming village in the south of the islandListen · coming soon

On a cold July morning Lucas comes back to Ribeirão da Ilha, the fishing village he left ten years earlier to study. At the fish shop he tells dona Iracema he quit his engineering job to start again by the sea; she sends him to his father, with whom he had fallen out. On the pier the father only asks if he has had coffee — and invites him home.

Ribeirão . , Iracema abria , voltavam separavam . , , parou . — , Iracema. lembra ? olhou deixou balança. Lucas, Otávio, . tinha saído tinha aparecido. tinha , . Lucas contou tinha tinha trabalhado . Disse ganhava , . Explicou tinha queria , . Iracema perguntou sabia. baixou respondeu . tinham brigado , falavam. — está , consertando — disse . — Vai . Lucas caminhou . estava , reconheceu . virou, ficou . perguntou tinha tomado . Lucas disse , Otávio respondeu havia . , sabia . Iracema contava Lucas tinha — , , ia .

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Words to know

  • a peixariafish shop
  • as ostrasoysters (farmed in the bays around Florianópolis)
  • o balcãoWordshop counter
  • deixar cairto drop (lit. to let fall)
  • pedir demissãoto resign, quit one's job
  • brigar feioto have a bad falling-out
  • o trapichesmall wooden pier (common word on the Santa Catarina coast)
  • de costaswith one's back turned
  • virar-seto turn around