Joana Ferraz - Rosa Almerinda

Rosa Almerinda is a novel woven from fragments of time, where past and present intertwine to reveal the story of a woman who lives between silence and resistance. Over three decades, between Lisbon and Trás-os-Montes, Rosa confronts her husband's violence with discreet but persistent courage.
The narrative moves forward and backward, revealing key moments in Rosa's life—as a woman, mother, and daughter—and intersecting her trajectory with that of other figures marked by absence, memory, and hope. At certain moments, the novel delves into a mystical register, evoking legends from the Portuguese countryside, which give the story a symbolic and almost enchanting dimension.

Each temporal leap illuminates a facet of Rosa Almerinda's identity, in a country also undergoing transformation. This is a powerful fictional testimony about survival and love, where time is not linear, but emotional: a broken mirror reflecting the complexity of the female experience.