Germano Almeida
Birth date: January 01, 1945
Germano Almeida's Books
In this novella, a rich businessman, Napumoceno da Silva Araujo, has just died, leaving a surprising will; everyone assumed the straitlaced old bachelor led an abstemious life, but it turns out he had his share of sexcapades. The book is set in Cape Verde, an island nation off the west coast of Afri...
Não foi dos livros de Germano Almeida que gostei mais. Penso que ele estava demasiado envolvido pessoalmente, sentimentos de culpa e tal... Houve momentos longos. O que me manteve presa ao livro foi a descrição da pressão social sobre André.
Cape Verde. This was a fast, enjoyable book, a very funny novel whose absent protagonist leaves a will that runs to hundreds of pages. Embedded in the will and other characters' associations to it or tangents from it is the dead man's apologia pro vita sua. While sometimes he seems to be on the leve...
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