Pão de Açucar
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Summary:
“In February 2006, Porto’s Sapper Fire Brigade rescued a body from the well of an abandoned building with marks of aggression and naked from the waist down. The victim, who was ill and had taken refuge in the basement, had been beaten over several days by a group of teenagers, some of whom were as young as twelve. Rafa had come across the place on one of his usual forays into dirty areas, and that kind of shack immediately piqued his interest. Then, torn between attraction and repulsion, he wondered whether he should keep the secret to himself or share it with his friends. But what value is a treasure that can’t be shown?”
Edited by: Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva
Comment:
“A compassionate novel, but never sentimental, ‘Pão de Açúcar’ is of exemplary parsimony in terms of language through imagery, especially in the face of the moving drama of the human involvements of its story”, stressing that it is “a great novel by a young author of whom Portuguese literature should be proud from the outset”. (Manuel Frias Martins)