Um Muro no Meio do Caminho

They come carrying the few things they kept: a jotter, a single earring, some pictures, a dead boy's shirt, a pregnancy, the memory of walls caving in. Having made it over the sea, they meet a barrier no one expected, raised by a hostility that has forgotten how many of Europe's own people died without shelter within living memory. Along it spread camps of stony ground, rats and tents beaten by sun, snow and quarrels. Helpers arrive from everywhere. Among countless stories are those of Amina and Omid, who fled, of Dimitris, a Greek hemmed in by walls of his own, and of Ann, Saud, Juan and Eleni.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

245 pages in the original

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by Porto Editora

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789720030306 (original)