Para Onde Vão os Guarda-Chuvas

The novel is set in an Orient of legend, pieced together from what we suppose its history was and what we take its present to be, full of magic, strangeness and cruelty. Its people include a man who wants to vanish from sight, a boy whose dream is to soar like a plane and a woman determined to wed someone with blue eyes, along with a poet who cannot speak, a Russian general not unlike a fighting cock, an Indian in love and a boy who holds the entire universe in his mouth. It begins with an illustrated tale for children who have stopped believing in Father Christmas.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

620 pages in the original

First published

2013 by Objectiva

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9789896721978 (original)

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