We say:*****
Still drawing back from the back catalogue of favourites, Equator is a true gem of Portuguese literature.
Its author, a long standing Portuguese journalist decided, with the help of a hard working research team, to foray into historical fiction. It a real treat.
In the year of 1905 the Portuguese King sends a high society small company owner to one of its African colonies - there unfolds a story of love, treason, intrigue, revolt and social reform. If the facts are accurate the Brits come out of it pretty badly with their colonial policies.
Written with a ight hand and enough of everything to keep your eye from wandering - i read this hefty tome in an afternoon, with lots of cups of tea wishing for an African sky.
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