A fine debut novel by a promising new Portuguese writer This fascinating tale which chronicles the end of slavery in a Portuguese colony will certainly gain decent review coverage
Miguel Sousa Tavares was born in Oporto. He gave up a career in law to pursue journalism, after which he moved to more literary writing. He is the author of several books of non-fiction. Equator is his first novel, the product of a long period of maturation and historical research inspired by a complex chapter in Portuguese history.
'Miguel Sousa Tavares fashions a brilliant account of Portuguese society torn between modernity and retrograde colonial practices to offer us an exquisite love story' La Marseillaise 'There's everything: love, politics, solitude, treason and dignity in the equatorial languor' Cristina Taglietti, Io donna, Il Corriere della Sera 'A story which flows like a melody, smoothly, melancholically, suddenly changing its pace and becoming passion' La Repubblica
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