The book “Chronicles of an announced shipwreck”, by Maria do Vale Cartaxo, will be presented on the 16th of September, at 18:00, at the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Municipal Library, in Portimão.
The work will be presented by Daniel Cartucho, Elisabete Rodrigues and Dora Pereira.
According to the synopsis of the work, «the shipwreck announced is that of an old family house – a stone and lime raft – which will be demolished to make way for a multi-storey building (a metaphor for the present-day Algarve, in which its landscape and soul are sacrificed to the venal altar of tourism). Summering in the old house, for the last time, are a teenager (trying to understand himself and the world that is his), his mother (whose marriage is sinking) and his grandmother (who was born in that house, who he loves, and fears being shipwrecked with her).
Maria do Vale Cartaxo, born in Portimão, has sailed around the world. By motorbike, she traveled with her husband, Christopher Gosden, thousands of kilometers from Singapore, through Malaysia and Thailand, to Laos and Cambodia, followed by a motorhome journey from Canada to Chile, crossing Argentina and settling in in Brazil.
After this journey of life, he returned to his homeland, taking up residence near Alvor. Maria do Vale Cartaxo was the first to receive the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Award, instituted in 1999 by the Portimão City Council, with the short story “A Viagem”, the same happening in 2002 with the novel “O Legacy de Mrs. Baker” and, in 2006, with the short story “The seventh day”.
He also published the novels “Three logbooks on the shipwreck route” (2003) and “O dia não” (2008).
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