Maria da Conceição Caleiro - Até Para o Ano em Jerusalém

A man and a woman – Vicente and Maria Luís (Kowalevsky) – occasionally cross paths at a party at the narrator's house; he, a professor of Contemporary History, temporarily separated, finishing a book, leaving for a semester of classes in Rio de Janeiro; she, an artist. He uses as his artistic name the strange nickname found in family letters on the verge of a move.
They fall in love. But Maria Luís is HIV-positive. They don't stay together. In Brazil, at PUC, Vicente meets a colleague who "really" has the name Kowalevsky, of Jewish origin. This is what leads him to research the origin of the name, its root and its course. He immerses himself in this world and it is from this investigation that he arrives at its source: a Polish refugee – Iossef – who left Danzig, arrived in England, from there to the Azores and from the Azores to Brazil. In São Miguel he lives a passion that only the splendor of the land and the omen of the fumaroles expel. Only after his death will the past be revealed.