Um Bailarino na Batalha

A band of people walks across the desert to escape a war, heading for Europe and a hoped-for peace. They move like a pack, shoving their way forward, driven by the urge to survive. On the way the walkers grow close as kin, a homeland on the move: at night they sleep fitfully, relying first on relatives, then on neighbours, and trusting little. They have left their country behind, if they ever had one; what they still have is a people. Written as a long prose poem, the story turns the daily news about refugees and their growing numbers into the stuff of an ancient epic.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

115 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, War (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by Relógio D'Água

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9789896418762 (original)