“Caminho da Vigia”, by João Luís Gonçalves, is presented at the Leya bookstore in Pátio this Saturday, October 15th, at 17 pm.
The presentation will be in charge of Valério Bexiga, renowned lawyer, author, and man of culture.
João Luís Gonçalves, born in Madeira, is currently the Public Prosecutor in Loulé. He participated in United Nations missions in Timor-Leste, and has published more than ten books, two of them prefaced by Xanana Gusmão and D.Ximenes Belo.
He signed several plays, one of which, Jus ou a Solidão da Justiça, about the reality of inmates in the Jail of Faro, took the stage at CAPa, Center for Performing Arts, in Faro, by the hand of the te-Attrition group.
In Caminho da Vigia, the author describes stories of “dreams and tears of emigration and the overseas war”, experiences from his childhood, as almost his entire family emigrated, including his father and two brothers to “escape” the war and to hard country life.
The book addresses the hypocrisy and contradictions of the fascist government, about the justification and morals of war, as well as reflecting the distance between the formal justice of the lord judges and the feeling of justice of the simple people: “People on the way of the Watch never read the Penal Code, but they know how to distinguish what is unfair”!…
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