Equator
(Miguel de Sousa Tavares)
Equator is a romance where the fiction if mixes to the historical facts, ambientado at the beginning of century XX and in recent years of the Portuguese monarchy, the book place-in the ones in contact with the society of that time and its customs and with the enslaved work, persistent in some colonies exactly after the abolition of the slavery.
Luis Bernardo is a man of 37 years, loving of the arts, the culture and beautiful women. A seducer, as as much left books of Eça de Queirós. Graduated Right in Coimbra, dirige entediada the company who inherited of the father. Its interest for the Colonial Question, its fame of good conversador, its good relations and the fluency in the languages English and French, finishes for producing a radical change in its life.
Convoked for king D. Carlos to play important mission in the one of the Portuguese colonies, accepted incumbency, in part because this would provide a honrosa exit to it to affair with a married woman. Badly wise person the old seducer, proud that it was never to have if gotten passionate, that would find in those tropics an foreigner who would determine its destination of given man the skirt adventures, but also the melancolias. Facetas psychological of the personages, the ambientação in a hot and humid region, that as much despertava the sensuality as the melancholic moods are the conducting wire of this narrative that will mobilize the interest and the attention of the readers of all the latitudes. In the end we finish for agreeing to the epigraph that in them presents one meaning another one for the word Equator, at the same time, imaginary line of border between two worlds and contraction of the expression be-cum-the-pain, in old Portuguese.
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