Felicidade

Lisbon, 1973. Change is in the air, and a boy of seventeen, raised by a traditionalist father and a progressive mother, loses his heart to Felicidade, a fellow pupil and one of the Kopejka triplets, the confident beauties every boy at the liceu dreams of. As Europe throws off its dictators and Portugal bids farewell to the old regime, his first night with her ends in disaster, and he finds himself caught in the web of the three sisters, like Furies he is powerless to tame, torn between two worlds as in a Greek tragedy. A tale of love and of being haunted, across the decades that remade Portugal.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

390 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Portugal, 1970s

First published

2020 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789897840401 (original)