Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida - Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso

Arriving in Lisbon under medical orders, Cartola and Aquiles find themselves bound as father and son in misfortune, surviving the slow rhythm of illness, mounting debts, and the constant exchange of letters and phone calls with the family left behind in Luanda.

Until, in a valley framed by pinewoods on the outskirts of the city long dreamed of by old Cartola, they find shelter—and a friend. Will this friendship be enough to save them? “If the understanding between two souls doesn’t change the world, no tiny part of the world remains exactly the same after two souls understand each other.” Luanda, Lisbon, Paradise, the second novel by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, is a moving reckoning of three modest lives, where hope and pessimism, waste and redemption, appear side by side in a sequence of dark, tender, and tragic tableaux.