Books set in Portugal (38)
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The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso EN
PortugalDescription:
Everyone has gone away... We too should no longer be here. Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels. Rui is fifteen years old. He has lived in Luanda all his life and has never even visited the far-away homeland - although he has heard many stories. But now his family are finally accepting that they too must return, and Rui is filled with a mixture of excitement ... continue
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The Songs of António Botto by António Boto, Fernando Pessoa, Josiah Blackmore EN
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The rediscovery of a major voice in modern gay poetry and twentieth-century letters.
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The Stone Raft by José Saramago EN
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One day a rift opens along the border between Spain and France, and the Iberian peninsula floats off across the Atlantic, a great stone raft. But what of the floating population? While the tourists and investors flee, the Spanish and Portuguese escape the coast and wander the inland roads.
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Una niña está perdida en su siglo en busca de su padre by Gonçalo M. Tavares ES
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Marius, que parece huir de algo, se une a Hanna, una adolescente con Síndrome de Down, en la búsqueda de su padre. Los lugares que visitan y los personajes que conocen (así como los sueños) adquieren un valor simbólico que pretenden caracterizar el siglo XX. La modalidad recuerda a El Principito, en que la simpatía de Hannah le abre las puertas a los diversos mundos, aunque lo simbólico de cada caso es más complejo y también más inquietante. Aunque la redacción dificulta un poco la lectura, muy bueno.
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Vamos Comprar Um Poeta by Afonso Cruz PT
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Numa sociedade dominada pelo materialismo, as famílias têm artistas em vez de animais de estimação. É nesse cenário, onde cada espaço tem um patrocinador, cada passo é medido com exatidão, e até a troca dos afetos é contabilizada, que uma menina pede ao pai um poeta. Com humor e leveza, Afonso Cruz conduz uma narrativa para fazer pensar sobre o utilitarismo e o papel da arte em um mundo onde tudo precisa ser mensurado.
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What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?: A Novel by António Lobo Antunes EN
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A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde—a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts—is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who sea... continue
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Whites Can Dance Too by Kalaf Epalanga EN
AngolaDescription:
An exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the music of his homeland, the intertwining of cultural roots, and freedom and love. It took being caught at a border without proper documents for me to realise I'd always been a prisoner of sorts. Kuduro had been my passport to the world, thanks to it I'd travelled to places I'd never dreamed of visiting. But the chickens had come home to roost . . . Hours before performing at one of Europe's most iconic music festivals, Kalaf Epalanga is detained at the b... continue