Eugénia Soares Lopes - Crisântemo Branco

In the year that marks the 50th anniversary of the Revolution that opened the doors to freedom and the return to democracy in Portugal, everything we have been describing gains a special resonance.

And the book bears witness to this through texts such as “The Carnations” and “In the Distance: Happiness”, alongside other passages where lyrical tone and poetic language prevail. In the writing of Eugénia Soares Lopes, April is alive and well. Fifty years on from “the whole and clean initial day”, as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen once described it, we can be glad that it still is.