In the Time of Cherries
In 1947, Serafim Almeida—a London-based reporter and aspiring novelist—returns to post-war Lisbon and finds a vibrant metropolis. It is then that he receives an unusual invitation from Irene Silva Vaz, a fado singer with a peculiar life.
Curiosity leads him to explore Lisbon in the company of the fado singer, while she seeks to exorcise her ghosts with the old reporter, asking him to turn her confessions into a book. Throughout that summer, Serafim will find himself entangled in her intricate web of childhood stories, loves and hates, family secrets and, above all, the tortured friendship Irene maintained with Helena Sousa—the seamstress who seems to haunt all the singer's stories.
An intimate portrait of a woman who fought against everything and everyone to make her voice heard.
Publisher: Aurora
ISBN: 9789895770519
Binding: capa mole
Pages: 384
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