FAR FROM MANAUS

In FAR FROM MANAUS, the death of an unknown man in a Porto apartment is the starting point for an investigation that takes Jaime Ramos from Portugal to Brazil and Angola. This triangle is home to solitary characters, people who disappear without a trace and whose last steps the detective tries to retrace with the help of his imagination. There are men without biographies or memories, women who defy the conformism and mediocrity of their small world, human beings who have lost all illusions and limit themselves to trying not to die. This journey will transport the reader from 19th-century Beirut to the heart of the Amazon and contemporary Manaus, from Porto to São Paulo, from Luanda to Rio de Janeiro and Amapá, from the Angolan and Guinean Wars to the empty apartments where corpses, memories, and silences are found. FAR FROM MANAUS is a novel of Portuguese solitude, a distant and blurred portrait of a country abandoned to its memories and its disappearance. It uses police intrigue as a pretext for reflections on the experience of time, the sharing of small pleasures and human relationships.