A Book Addiction
by Afonso Cruz
Description
In the library of pharaoh Ramesses II there was writing above the entrance door: "the house of healing for the soul". It is the oldest librarian motto. In fact, books complete us and offer us multiple lives. They are patient and generous beings. Immobile on their shelves, with an astonishing resignation, they can wait decades or centuries for a reader.
We are stories, and books are one of our possible voices (a reader is, as soon as he opens a book, an author: reading is a way of writing ourselves).
In this delightful collection of historical accounts and literary curiosities, of personal reflections and memories, Afonso Cruz dialogues with several works, as many writers and all readers.
This is, of course, a book for those with a book addiction.
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Rights sold to: Italy.
Author Biography
Born in 1971 in Figueira da Foz, years later Afonso Cruz would visit more than 60 countries. In 2008, he published his first novel, The Flesh of God: The Adventures of Conrado Fortes and Lola Benites, and a year later The Encyclopedia of the World Story, which won the Camilo Castelo Branco Grand Prize. In 2011, he released The Books Which Devoured My Father (Maria Rosa Colaço Literary Prize) and The Human Contradiction (SPA/ RTP Authors Award). He was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2012 for his novel Kokoschka’s Doll. Jesus Christ Drank Beer was considered the Best Portuguese Novel of the Year by Time Out Lisbon magazine and the Best Novel of 2012 by the readers of the reference newspaper Público. In 2013, he published the novel Where do Umbrellas End Up (winner of the Portuguese Society for Authors Award). Flowers, published in 2015, won the literary prize Fernando Namora and was praised by critics, with rights being immediately sold to various countries.
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- Publisher Companhia das Letras
- Orginal LanguagePortuguese
- ISBN/Identifier 9789897841972
- Publication Country or regionPortugal
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 15.50 EUR
- Pages128
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleO Vício dos Livros
- Original Language AuthorsPortuguese
- Copyright Year2021
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