by Manuel Vilas · Alfaguara Portugal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896656515
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«It would be very good for us to write about our families, without any fiction, without novels. Telling only what happened or what we think happened». Driven by this conviction, Manuel Vilas composes, with a courageous, disenchanted, and poetic voice, the intimate account of a life and a country. Simultaneously son and father, author and narrator, Vilas digs into the past, seeking to reassemble the pieces, struggling to make present those who are no longer there. Because the bonds with family, with those we love, even if distant or absent, are what sustain and define us. Speaking from the gut, Vilas reveals the moving human frailty, while illuminating the unique strength of our condition and the inexhaustible capacity to rise again. Confessional, provocative, and moving, this book is an admirable piece of literature, in which personal and collective destiny, novel and autobiography are intertwined, creating a unique account of loss, life, grief, and pain that becomes the story of us all.
