5392 If They Ask for Me, Say I Flew by Alice Vieira

5392 If They Ask for Me, Say I Flew by Alice Vieira Illustration: Catarina Fonseca Publisher: Editorial Caminho SYNOPSIS If They Ask for Me, Say I Flew is perhaps the book in which the author most departs from the narrative models to which juvenile fiction has accustomed us. From the lives of the various women who constitute the core of the main characters, what stands out above all is the end of adolescence and the onset of adulthood. Across successive generations and spanning roughly four decades, the novel traces the connections between two provincial houses that serve as the setting for nearly the entire story. It is a narrative of some complexity, built upon a succession of female names whose precise interrelation only becomes apparent at an advanced stage of the narrative. It is a theater of love and heartbreak, submission and escape, frustration, resentment, and prejudice. For some characters, escaping the suffocating atmosphere of this provincial, closed world proves impossible. Dreams—and sometimes death—are the only exits. Price - €5 XVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXV