The Wind and the Soul. What the Wind Cannot Take Away: A Historical Novel Set in Apúlia between the seaweed and the masseira (Concelho de Esposende: estórias e histórias) - Softcover

The Wind and the Soul. What the Wind Cannot Take Away : A Historical Novel Set in Apúlia between the seaweed and the masseira

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some places are not remembered. They are carried.Between the Cávado river and the sea, at the beginning of the twentieth century, there is a strip of sand and wind where life is measured not in years but in tides. A place where men go into the cold water dressed in wool and oilskin to wrest a living from the sea, where women bear the same weight on land, and where the land itself is a hollow dug by hand into the dunes - a wound that, tended with patience, learns to bear fruit.This is the world of Manuel, a boy of seven when the century begins to convulse around him. A fallen king. A republic that arrives without asking. A war that steals sons and returns them changed. A hunger that seeps in slowly, like the tide. And a comet that crosses the sky one May night while a village waits, behind closed doors and wet cloths, to see whether the world will end.Through it all, the wind keeps blowing. The seaweed keeps coming. The sea keeps giving and demanding, indifferent to flags and presidents.The Wind and the Soul is not the story of those who decided things in Lisbon or Versailles. It is the story of those who received history already made, and had to live it with salt on their skin and hunger in their bellies. A story of dignity without monuments, of loves and betrayals shaped by scarcity, and of a way of life that disappeared not with a bang, but memory by memory - until only one old man remained who could still hear it.The wind cannot take everything. Some things it leaves behind. Artikel-Nr. 9798174076556

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