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António Tavares

Born 1960 · Portugal

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    APE 2020 · Shortlist

    Homens de Pó

    Title translated by AI:“Men of Dust”

    António Tavares · 59 when first published

    Novel · 220 pages · Historical, Migration, Politics

    AI-generated summary:In Portugal's Hot Summer of 1975, with civil war looming and the empire collapsing, a handful of Africans driven into exile, most of them from Angola, labour on road gangs in a country they do not know.