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      • Dead Bodies on My Back
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        Dead Bodies on My Back

        by Miguel Real

        After his father's death, a young man leaves law school and rents a small apartment in the attic of a Lisbon mansion for the purpose of writing a novel. There lives the Peralta Perestrêllo family, whose centenary matriarch - D. Consolação, long bedridden - is visited on May 13, 2017 by the appearance of Sister Lucy, after which she can get up and take a few steps.   Son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren are hesitant to believe the supposed miracle; but each in his own way (and also the Church, called immediately to assess the situation) finds out how to make dividends out of the episode - as in the case with the young writer who, with no ideas for his debut novel, suddenly has a lode at his disposal, not to mention his interest in the younger granddaughter of D. Consolação…   But, among the apparitions, will the widow's depression, the secular history of the palace, and the Peralta family's past and present, which is not recommended, even write a page?   Filled with humor (but also criticism and even some accusations), Dead Bodies on My Back is an admirable novel about Portugal (and the Portuguese mentality) that, despite the 21st-century, has not yet managed to heal many of the wounds of the past.

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      • The Light in Beijing
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        The Light in Beijing

        by Francisco José Viegas

        A body hanging from the pillars of the D. Luís Bridge, in Porto, challenging a transforming, cosmopolite, and tourist-filled city. A woman’s cadaver abandoned in the hills of the Douro — evoking a series of crimes in the Porto underworld. What seem like two independent occurrences end up revealing connections that aren’t surprising for Detective Jaime Ramos — who is simultaneously facing his Communist past, an inquiry into his work in the Police force, a strange request from an old friend and a search for a missing person, which will take him from the streets of Porto, Minho and Douro all the way to Beijing.   A dense novel in which Jaime Ramos, now in his ninth book, questions what it means to be Portuguese in a country dominated by complicit elites, endogamy and occult powers.

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      • Hypnosis
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        Hypnosis

        by Paulo Moura

        In the early 1990s, Mexican journalist Chespirito Diaz arrived in Washington willing to win in life and save the world. He was far from imagining that he would be the cause of a war. When Rachel Woodberg, a daughter of the American elite, with an obsession for adventure, proposed an unorthodox report on a gang summit, Chespirito realized that he was treading dangerous ground. Hypnosis is the novel of that decisive decade, between Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993 and the Iraq war in 2003, and can be read as a reflection on the nature and origins of collective persuasion in the contemporary world. A story that is only beginning.

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      • Lots Happened to Me After I Died
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        Lots Happened to Me After I Died

        by Ricardo Adolfo

        Brito is an illegal immigrant in a city he doesn’t know and whose language he doesn’t speak. On a Sunday afternoon, after doing some window shopping, he gets lost on his way home with his wife and their young son. And because he’s convinced that, in order to make the right choice, he must go against his better judgment, it becomes impossible for him to go back home.   After a night out on the streets, Brito realizes that if he doesn’t ask for help, he might be lost for good, but if he does, he might shatter his dream of a new life. In a little over twenty-four hours, Lots Happened to Me After I Died explores what it’s like to live as an immigrant inside oneself — harder than any exile.

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      • High Tide
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        High Tide

        by Pedro Vieira

        It fits almost everything in a century of a people's life. Wrecks and glories, light and darkness, people raised and on their knees. And all these years the tide goes up and down. There is a country that is changing even from afar. There are men on the run, who change their names and morals. There are women with clenched teeth. There are children left behind. Skeins of stories and bloods to which the thread has been lost.   In a novel without heroes, where everyone fights, survives and dies trying to be free, it is possible to try to disentangle, amid fear and guilt, where fiction ends and reality begins. And if, at times, the intimacy of writing brings us closer to distant events, in others it is the coldness of the narrative that shelters moments of great depth.   Courtesy of one of the most promising novelists in contemporary Portuguese literature, High Tide is a crude and epic portrait of 20th-century Portugal and of those who lived it, on the threshold where hope, dreams and memory merge and lose in the succession of tides.   A century is a long time. A century is nothing when we learn to swim.

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      • Thirty Something: Nothing's How We Dreamed It'd Be
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        Thirty Something: Nothing's How We Dreamed It'd Be

        by Filipa Fonseca Silva

        Filipe lives haunted by a teenage passion that stops him from havingserious relationships. Joana is a controlling and moralistic woman,disappointed with her own marriage. Maria is trying to rebuild her lifeafter being dumped just before walking down the aisle.During a dinner party that starts off seemingly banal, but that ends upfilled with arguments, lies, and alcohol, these three college friends,now in their thirties, are confronted with their own journeys andlifestyles and discover that nothing is how they dreamed it would be.Written in an almost cinematographic style, reminiscent of The BigChill, this three-narrator novel has charmed readers all over the world,portraying, with humor and unassumingly, an entire generation.

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      • I Rock, But I'm Not Made of Stone
        Fiction

        I Rock, But I'm Not Made of Stone

        by Yara Monteiro

        Vitória was born in Angola, but she was raised by her grandparents in Portugal. To become, perhaps, a "good wife". She's marked by a trauma she never overcame: she's never met her mother, an Angolan revolutionary. A few months before her wedding, she flees to Angola. Looking for her mother and her own sexual identity.She arrives in Luanda at the beginning of the 21st century. She finds it chaotic, filledwith social contrasts, a watercolor where tragedy and comedy dance together. Zacarias Vindu, a general involved in arms trafficking and a poetry lover, and Romena Cambissa, a hurricane-like widow, are, and simultaneously aren't, her main guides around Luanda. But it's in Huambo, in a magical and mystical Angola, that she unearths new clues, when she gets to know Juliana Tijamba, who fought in the civil war alongside her mother, in a meeting that awakens all of Vitória's ghosts. She is then forced to confront her past and to come into herself as an adult. Between satire and tragedy, abandonment and rupture, this is a story of self-discovery. A contemporary, urban, and feminine novel.

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