El imperio eres tú

Pedro I, who became Emperor of Brazil at the age of twenty-three, left his mark on the history of two continents. A larger-than- ife, contraddictory character, women were both his salvation and damnation: while his wife, the virtuous Leopoldina of Austria, raised him to the heights, his lover, the passionate Domitila de Castro, dragged him down into decadence. When the vast lands of Brazil become too small for him and he loses his interest in power, he stakes his life on the thing he felt to be right. And he attains glory.
With the exuberant beauty of the tropics as its backdrop, and  a passion for detail, Javier Moro narrates the prodigious epic of the birth of the largest country in South America.