The last years of stifling Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H., a second-rate artist struggling to survive in a bourgeois world obsessed with affluence. It also explores wider issues, including the functions of art and literature and the critic's role.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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