A Escrava Isaura 9.132 · 9.132

Two words end the chapter's long agony and open the novel's whole second movement: 'Fujamos' — let us flee. The verb in the first-person plural is the point; not 'flee' as a command to her but 'let us flee', father and daughter together, the escape a shared act of love against the law. After a chapter in which Isaura stood alone against the master, she is suddenly not alone. 'A Escrava Isaura' now becomes, in a single imperative, a novel of flight and pursuit — the persecuted heroine on the run, the whole telenovela engine that would make the book Brazil's most retold story. Everything before was the cage; this word opens the door.

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