Flowers [Flores]
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A man is deeply troubled by the news he reads in the papers and all the human tragedy he witnesses. One day, he’s struck by the fact that he can’t remember his first kiss, playing football in his village, seeing a naked woman.

Another man, his neighbour, finds it easy to cope with the horrors of the world, but loses his temper when he finds a hat misplaced. However, maybe because he remembers the magic of his first kiss—and he’s aware of how much his life has veered away from it—he sets out to help his neighbour recover all of his lost memories.

An unsettling story about memory and what’s left of us when it’s lost, a moving novel about love and what it needs to be in order to be worthy of that name.

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Born in 1971 in Figueira da Foz, years later he would visit more than 60 countries. He studied at the António Arroio Art School, the Lisbon Faculty of Visual Arts and the Institute for Visual Arts of Madeira. He published in 2008 his first novel, The Flesh of God: The Adventures of Conrado Fortes and Lola Benites [A Carne de Deus: Aventuras de Conrado Fortes e Lola Benites], and a year later The Encyclopedia of the World Story [Enciclopédia da Estória Universal], which won the Camilo Castelo Branco Grand Prize. In 2011, he released The Books Which Devoured My Father [Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai] and The Human Contradiction [A Contradição Humana].

He was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2012 for his novel Kokoschka’s Doll [A Boneca de Kokoschka]. Jesus Christ Drank Beer [Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja] was considered the Best Portuguese Novel of the Year by Time Out Lisbon magazine and the Best Novel of 2012 by the readers of the reference newspaper Público. He was elected as one of the 40 talents for the future by the newspaper Expresso.

In 2013, he released The Encyclopedia of the World Story: The Dresner Archives [Enciclopédia da Estória Universal — Arquivos de Dresner],The Year Book [O Livro do Ano] and lastly Where do Umbrellas End Up [Para onde Vão os Guarda-chuvas], winner of the 2014 Portuguese Society for Authors Award in the Literature category and widely considered his best novel yet. His book Capital was awarded the 2014 Portuguese National Award for Illustration. He has a monthly column, “Parallax”, in the arts newspaper Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias. He’s also an illustrator, an animated film director and member of the band The Soaked Lamb.
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