O Varandim seguido de Ocaso em Carvangel

Two novellas, set in imaginary grand duchies around the turn of the twentieth century, look at ambition, hypocrisy, fear and hope with a dark, ironic humour. The first is steeped in the threat of terrorist violence. In the second, the people of Carvangel live beneath a cannon that has never once been fired and put off the choices their lives demand, waiting instead to board the Maria Speranza, a vessel whose arrival no one can predict; among them is Rossélio. Across both pass a gallows raised by night, a coach ringed by wild dogs, a bloody fight among fishermen, anarchists nobler than any commoner, two Jesuits, a cellist cleric, eight women with tangled loves, and an operetta with a tragic undertone.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

220 pages in the original

First published

2012 by Porto Editora

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9789720044129 (original)