by José Rodrigues dos Santos · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896161729
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«A Ilha das Trevas» is the novel by José Rodrigues dos Santos, published by Gradiva in paperback, with 354 pages in Portuguese.
Paulino da Conceição, a Timorese man who lived through the departure of the Portuguese from East Timor with his family, keeps a secret he can only confide to one person. The plot mixes fiction and reality to follow the history of Timor from the Indonesian invasion of 1975 to the 1999 referendum, and shows a family marked by tragedy.
The novel was originally published in 2002; this copy corresponds to the 7th Gradiva edition, in paperback.
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in the history of East Timor and in Portuguese literature.
José António Afonso Rodrigues dos Santos is a Portuguese journalist, novelist and university lecturer. He has been one of the presenters of Telejornal, the evening news program on the Portuguese public television channel RTP1, since 1991. Since the 2000s he has published several thriller and historical fiction novels, becoming a best-selling author in Portugal.
