Paulo Varela Gomes

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• Passos Perdidos

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  APE 2017 · Shortlist

  Passos Perdidos

  AITitle translated by AI:“Lost Steps”

  Paulo Varela Gomes · 64 when first published

  Novel · 387 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Anna W., a woman no one can read, is seen at sixteen, twenty, thirty-three and forty-five, from Saint Helena and a Moroccan village to European cities in the 1970s and India in the late 1980s.

• Era uma Vez em Goa

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  APE 2016 · ★ Winner

  Era uma Vez em Goa

  AITitle translated by AI:“Once Upon a Time in Goa”

  Paulo Varela Gomes · 63 when first published

  Novel · 363 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1963, two years after Portugal lost its Indian territories, Graham, a hard-up Englishman, reaches Goa by dubious means and is taken time and again for a Portuguese agent.