{"product_id":"um-dia-chegarei-a-sagres","title":"One day I will arrive in Sagres","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e Nélida Piñon hadn't published a new novel since her award-winning \u003cem\u003e\"Vozes do deserto\" (Voices of the Desert\u003c\/em\u003e ) in 2004. \u003cem\u003e\"One Day I'll Arrive in Sagres\"\u003c\/em\u003e is, therefore, a literary achievement in itself. The author offers us a powerful epic, set in the 19th century, in the heart of Portugal, a product of faith in oral tradition and the culture of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Nélida moves us—with Mateus, the narrator, as her body; and Camões, the north, as her soul—through the land, through the ground that is also a river, until the road becomes the sea. The journey—the launching—is the destiny of those people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe dam—an entire sea to cross—is Vicente. The grandfather. The one who raised Mateus, the son of a prostitute and grandson of an unknown father. A grandson who embodies the Portuguese countryside. Into the intimate, powerful fabric of these relationships, where the dryness of gestures and words prevails, Nélida Piñon pours some of the elements that make up the imaginary of her fiction: not just the village, but the universe of the village; not just the animals, but the sacredness of animals; not just God, but the presence of God; not just sex, but the sex that governs the indomitable instinct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Vicente, the skeptic, dies; the dam is raised. Mateus leaves, a Vasco da Gama in his desires. The village remains. Mateus, from the top of São Jorge Hill, a glimpse of the Tagus River, narrates. Amélia, the woman from the East, narrates; who knows, hope? Still Vicente, a memory of the past, the legacy of Prince Henry the Navigator. Always under the eternal fantasy, the obsession of one day reaching Sagres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIt tells the story of Portugal—of a civilization—through the saga of an individual, perhaps an intrepid peasant. It's impossible not to find in the character of this fascinating epic by Nélida Piñon—this century-old book—a new \u003cem\u003e\"A República dos sonhos\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" a landmark novel in Portuguese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175915110652,"sku":"9786555871128","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/0f518c21cae7eb23096e2be2d1b6052a.jpg?v=1778319118","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/um-dia-chegarei-a-sagres","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}