Ana Margarida de Carvalho

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• O Gesto que Fazemos para Proteger a Cabeça

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  APE 2020 · Shortlist

  O Gesto que Fazemos para Proteger a Cabeça

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Gesture We Make to Protect Our Heads”

  Ana Margarida de Carvalho · 50 when first published

  Novel · 255 pages · Historical, War

  AIAI-generated summary:Near the Spanish border in the Alentejo, while fugitives and news of executions cross over from the Civil War, two men meet on a road: one returning bent on revenge, the other hauling olives just to get by.

• Não Se Pode Morar nos Olhos de um Gato

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  APE 2017 · ★ Winner

  Não Se Pode Morar nos Olhos de um Gato

  AITitle translated by AI:“You Cannot Live in a Cat's Eyes”

  Ana Margarida de Carvalho · 47 when first published

  Novel · 350 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Late in the nineteenth century, after slavery has been abolished, an illegal slave ship goes down off Brazil, and its survivors, from overseer and slave to priest and noblewoman, wash up on a beach that vanishes at high tide.

• Que Importa a Fúria do Mar

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  APE 2014 · ★ Winner

  Que Importa a Fúria do Mar

  AITitle translated by AI:“What Does the Fury of the Sea Matter”

  Ana Margarida de Carvalho · 44 when first published

  Novel · 239 pages · Historical, Politics, Love

  AIAI-generated summary:One night in 1934, a prisoner being taken to the new Tarrafal camp in Cape Verde throws a bundle of letters from the train; decades later Eugénia, a journalist, interviews him as one of its last survivors.