O Punhal de Pedra
The Stone Dagger
Quartet Editora
ISBN 85-85696-43-5
190 páginas
Out print

This novel by Luís Peazê is sustained by a  historical thread in which a variation on both the new age story and a thriller, carefully researched, skillfully melding intrigue and a quest, both of which build in intensity up to the book’s last sentence. The Jews exodus AC, the Guaraní Indians before the Jesuit's venture in south america, a Brazilian city the size of New York and everything that someone who dreams of social status, power and money could desire, as well as the contrasts between simplicity and sophistication, love, lust, life and death, are the ingredients used by Peazê in cooking his work to the optimum point.

          At the beginning of the XX century, a Guaraní Indian passes through the fields of a farm in the south of Brazil, the Pampas, and asks for permission to camp there while he recovers from a wound. He is walking the route of his ancestors and mysteriously disappears a few days later, leaving behind a stone dagger he had been wearing on a thong around his neck. The dagger is found at the entrance to a Paleolithic cave, and is presented as a gift to an attorney, who keeps it on one of the trays of a bronze scale on his desk. The attorney, who is a specialist in works of art, becomes proficient at telling the story of the dagger – that it was a present from his grandfather. He tells the story to friends and clients, in the form of a legend, recalling issues he learned of as a boy. On a boring afternoon at his office, he decides to explore the area where the dagger was said to have been found, hoping even to locate the cave. Sparingly minded at the occasion he does not realize that his ingenuous impulse is about to change his life, or that in parallel, in different parts of the world, and within different segments of society, there is a fervor taking shape and converging around the stone dagger.

REMARKS: All the characters are real and their names has been changed to protect identities. The novel is a sum of three real stories, which took place in diferent times and spaces, although blended in one context as a whole"

While writing The Stone Dagger, Luís Peazê set to himself a parallel goal: to prepare a compelling screen play, as an alternative medium...      And indeed it ought to be a natural avenue: the story from the inspiration point of view to its very meaning is a true plot for a motion picture...

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