by Inês Pedrosa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722056694
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«Desamparo» is the novel by Inês Pedrosa published by D. Quixote in paperback (314 pages, in Portuguese).
The novel opens with Jacinta Sousa, a girl taken to Brazil at age three who returns to Portugal more than fifty years later to meet her mother. In a village, stories of emigration, loneliness and survival through the economic crisis intersect, with love, betrayal, jealousy, crime and death as the backdrop.
Second edition, published in 2015.
For readers of contemporary Portuguese literature interested in stories about emigration, identity and rural life.
Inês Pedrosa is a Portuguese journalist, novelist, short story writer, children's writer and playwright. She was director of the Casa Fernando Pessoa. Her novels have also been published in Brazil, Croatia, Ukraine, Germany, Italy and Spain.
