In this paper, we analyze the book Duas pátrias, um só coração, by Italian-Brazilian writer
Angelo Bruno (2009). By electing one of its authors, the research aims to contribute to
understand and characterize the literary production made in Tocantins. The selected book is
inscribed as a memory narrative, choosing the author to employ a third-person narrator, Lino,
who would be Bruno's alter ego. It is divided into two moments of the author / character's
ficctional: i. those lived in Italy, which involves the experience in World War II and his
training as a seminarian; ii. those lived in Brazil, with particular emphasis on adventures in
the north of Goiás, Xambioá, today Tocantins. As a main objective, we seek to identify the
way this narrative as figurative these two places brought by memory. As specific objectives,
we seek to contribute to the understanding of the literature produced in Tocantins; identify the
characteristics of Angelo Bruno's prose; reflect on the writing of memory, and, finally,
analyze aspects related to the culture and history of Tocantins in Bruno's book. As a
methodology, our research consists of a bibliographical research, involving studies on
memory and life histories and, to support the analysis we use authors who deal with the
literature in Tocantins and the semiotic theory, which constitutes as theory of meaning. ,
privileging internal aspects of the text. As an engaged author, we see how his text serves to
denounce social injustices committed here and there.
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