by Henrique Raposo · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789898819260
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«Alentejo Prometido» is the essay by Henrique Raposo, published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2015 (112 pages, in Portuguese).
A family road movie through the Alentejo Litoral, centered on Santiago de Cacém, where the author travels through villages while uncovering family secrets and questioning clichés about the region. Women, suicide and uprootedness structure the route. Son of Alentejo emigrants to Lisbon in the 1960s, he seeks his lost identity.
The book belongs to the «Retratos da Fundação» collection of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.
A read for those interested in Portugal, family memory and the social portrait of the Alentejo.
