by Manuel Alegre · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722012973
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«Alma» is the novel by Manuel Alegre, published by Publicações Dom Quixote in paperback (225 pages, in Portuguese).
The novel evokes with nostalgia the enchanted places of Alma, the village of childhood; from that childhood come the images and emotions that guide a whole life. The work holds that there is no arrow without the bow of childhood, a metaphor for the origin of identity and memory.
It is the fourth edition, published in Lisbon in 1996; the work is subtitled «romance» (novel) and originally appeared in 1995.
Recommended for readers interested in contemporary Portuguese literature and in lyrical evocations of memory and childhood.
Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte is a Portuguese poet and politician. He was a candidate to the presidency of the Portuguese Republic in 2006 and 2011, finishing in second place in both elections. For his literary work, he was awarded the Camões Prize in 2017.
