livro earth water & fire de: domingos amaral

Sinopse

• Lisbon, 1st November 175. The morning begins calmly in the city, but in the Inquisition's prison in Rossio, Sister Margarida, a young nun condemned to die at the stake, tries to hang herself in her cell. In his house in Santa Catarina, Hugh Gold, an Engli sh sea captain, looks at the river and dreams of his days at sea. In the Church of São Vicente de Fora, before Mass begins, a young boy is angry with his mother because he wants to go home to find his twin sister. In Belém, a minister's secretary attends Mass in the presence of the King, Dom José. And in the Limoeiro jail, the pirate Santamaria gets involved in a vicious fight with a gang of Spanish deserters. Suddenly, at nine-thirty in the morning, the city begins to shake. With a violence never seen be fore, the earth rips itself apart, houses collapse, church roofs cave in and chaos reigns, killing thousands. In the hours that follow, a giant wave engulfs Terreiro do Paço and for several days huge fires terrorise the kingdom's capital. Lost and in a st ate of shock, the survivors wander the streets in search of their destiny. While Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo tries to reorganise the city, a pirate and a nun try to escape justice, an Englishman tries to find his money and a twelve-year-old boy trie s to find his twin sister who is buried under the rubble.

Dimensões LxAxP

• 23,50 15,80 2,70 cm

Encadernação

• CAPA MOLE

Nº de páginas

• 408

ISBN

• 9789895813759

Editora

• CASA DAS LETRAS

Data Lançamento

• 25-02-2025

Idioma

• PORTUGUÊS

Autor

• DOMINGOS AMARAL

Sobre o Autor

• Domingos Amaral was born on 12 October 1967 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is the father of four children, three girls and a boy. He graduated in Economics from the Catholic University of Portugal where he currently teaches a course on Sports Economics. He also holds a masters degree in International Economic Relations from the University of Columbia in New York. For many years he was a journalist, first at the newspaper O Independente, where he worked for eleven years, and then as editor of the magazine Maxmen for seven years and GQ for four years. He has also collaborated as a columnist for various newspapers and magazines such as Diário de Notícias, Diário Económico, Grande Reportagem, City, Grazia, Invista, Fortuna, Correio da Manhã and Record and is current ly a commentator on SportTV. He has published fifteen novels, all with Casa das Letras.