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4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
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APE 2022 · Shortlist
Maremoto
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 39 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · War, Family
AI-generated summary:In Lisbon, Boa Morte da Silva, an old soldier who now parks cars, and a girl from Rua do Loreto become friends like a chance grandfather and granddaughter, while he writes letters to a daughter who is almost a stranger.
APE 2020 · Shortlist
A Visão das Plantas
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 37 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Captain Celestino, a former pirate who once smothered a revolt of the Africans he was shipping to Brazil, ends his days almost a saint, quietly tending a garden, in a story drawn from a passage in Raul Brandão.
APE 2018 · Shortlist
A Sociedade dos Sonhadores Involuntários
José Eduardo Agualusa · 57 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Politics, Satire
AI-generated summary:Daniel Benchimol, an Angolan journalist, keeps dreaming of strangers, and dreams draw him together with a Mozambican artist, a Brazilian scientist and a hotelier with a violent past, in a country whose dictatorship is crumbling.
APE 2012 · Shortlist
A Cidade de Ulisses
Teolinda Gersão · 71 when first published
Novel · 197 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Two people meet and fall in love in Lisbon, and their affair turns into a love story with the city itself, ranging over myth and history, literature and painting, past and present.
APE 2011 · Winner
Uma Viagem à Índia
Gonçalo M. Tavares · 40 when first published
Novel · 410 pages
AI-generated summary:A man sets off for India hoping both to understand and to put things behind him, in a journey of present-day melancholy that rewrites Camões's sixteenth-century epic The Lusiads for our time.
APE 2003 · Winner
O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas
Lídia Jorge · 56 when first published
Novel · 528 pages · Migration, Love
AI-generated summary:In an invented Algarve village, Milene, thirty-four and seeing everything with a child's eyes, stays behind when her relatives go on holiday and lets a group of Cape Verdean immigrants settle in the disused cannery her family owns.
APE 2000 · Winner
Exortação aos Crocodilos
António Lobo Antunes · 57 when first published
Novel · 378 pages · Politics, Crime
AI-generated summary:In Portugal after the 1974 revolution, four women whose men belong to a clandestine far-right group planting bombs tell, each in her own voice, what is going on around them.