In The Fortune-Teller, the author presents one more urban story, concerning a love triangle, Machado de Assis-style.
Translated to English by Clara Monnerat, from the 1st edition by Editora Itapuca, Niterói - Brazil.

Machado de Assis is the greatest name of Brazilian Literature, a genius of Fictional Realism.
Between 1870 and 1900, he wrote novels, poems, chronicles, reviews and articles which were in everyone s grace and influenced the 20th-century Brazilian writers.
Born on the Livramentös Hill, in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a painter and a washerwoman, he acquired an extense literary culture, combining his bureaucratic career to his passion for prose. He produced masterpieces such as Dom Casmurro and Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas.