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A Implosão

“The Implosion” (title translated by AI)

Nuno Júdice (born 1949)

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Long after their years of conspiring against the dictatorship, two old acquaintances meet again at a rally against rulers who have broken their word to the people. The country is invented, and so is its continent: a Europe coming apart socially and politically. One of them leads the other to a church that holds a coffin, without revealing what lies inside. Until dawn the pair go over past and present, a woman each of them once loved and a rival she perhaps preferred, who sold them all out by serving every government in turn, whatever its colour, purely for his own ends.

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About the book

Form
Novella
Length
118 pages in the original
Genres
Politics (assigned by AI)
First published
2013 by Dom Quixote
Author's age
64 when first published
ISBN

9789722051675 (original)