Leite Derramado is the last novel written by Chico Buarque. It was voted the best book of 2009 by readers of O Globo.[1]
A very old man is in a hospital bed. Member of a traditional Brazilian family, he challenges, in a monologue addressed to his daughter, to nurses and to who want to hear, the history of his family, since Portuguese ancestors, passing through a baron of the Empire, a First Republic's Senator, until his grandson, a young from Rio de Janeiro. A family saga is characterized for the social and economic decadency and it has as a background Brazilian history from the last two centuries.