Homens de Pó

Summer 1975. The Carnation Revolution has turned into political and social upheaval, and Portugal teeters on the edge of civil war while barracks, streets, farms and factories fight over power. With the colonies breaking free, hundreds of thousands pour back into the former metropolis, among them Africans pushed out by conflict and turmoil, chiefly from Angola. The novel follows a few of these men as they look for who they are and where they belong in a fractured land that is strange to them. Laying roads from sunrise to sunset, coated in a powder that turns them into phantoms, they weep, hope, struggle, find love and wonder what became of those they left.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

220 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Portugal, 1975

First published

2019 by Dom Quixote

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789722066464 (original)