Insubmissos
(Unholy Ghosts) Book not yet available in English
Summary:
“After the death of many of his friends, a worldly, Jewish classical guitar teacher and former star of the Greenwich Village basketball team decides to leave the United States and seek a new life in Portugal. But what he calls the viral eclipse of sexuality haunts him even then, when António, his most talented student, tests positive for HIV and threatens to give up on life at the age of twenty-four. Desperate to show the young man that he still has a future ahead of him, ‘the Professor’ organises a road trip to Paris, hoping to convince a virtuoso to take him on as a student. Antonio’s father, a rigid man and a distant presence in his life, decides to accompany them and, in passing, the three of them plunge into a triangle of adventure, violence and personal revelations. Will they find an opportunity for redemption along the way? Originally published in 1996 and previously unpublished in Portugal, Insubmissos is a vivid and intimate novel that dares to shed light on themes that still linger in the shadows.”
Edited by: Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva
Comment:
A story about the experiences of the world of HIV and the people directly affected and/or infected by this pandemic of the last quarter of the century. Centered on the male homosexual world, it is still comprehensive with regard to the feeling of fatality and the search for hope in search of solutions to the difficulties of human relations.