Nosso Lar

Nosso Lar: Life in the Spirit World

First edition
Authors	André Luiz; Chico Xavier
Original title	Nosso Lar
Translator	Darrel W. Kimble Marcia M. Saiz
Language	Portuguese
Series	Life in the Spirit World
Published	1944 (Brazil: Portuguese)
Publisher	Livraria Editora da Federacao
Publication place	Brazil
ISBN	8598161217
Followed by	The Messengers

Nosso Lar: Life in the Spirit World (Portuguese: Nosso Lar), also known as Astral City, is a novel by the Brazilian spiritist medium Francisco Cândido Xavier. First published in 1944,^[1] it tells the story of André Luiz, a prominent doctor who lived in the city of Rio de Janeiro. After dying, André Luiz finds himself neither in Heaven nor Hell, depicted in the teachings he had received during his Catholic upbringing, but rather in the so-called umbral, a region where less-than-perfect souls face the consequences of their infelicitous actions while alive. After a while, he is able to perceive the presence of Clarêncio, a friendly spirit who had been trying to help him all along during his time in umbral. Clarêncio then takes him to Nosso Lar, a spirit colony, or astral city, where André becomes acquainted with the intricacies of afterlife and reincarnation. The novel was adapted into the 2010 film Astral City: A Spiritual Journey