LIVRO

Recently nominated for the PRIX FEMMINA, LIVRO weaves a grand narrative filled with trauma and love. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing through the 1960s, a massive exodus of Portuguese emigrants fled to France as a period of dictatorship was ending. This is a saga dedicated to the many varied, courageous stories of emigration throughout the world, and at the same time it gives life to a fascinating gallery of characters and their personal stories of love, loss and hope.

With its ambitious title, the novel follows several individuals who live in Portugal but are profoundly affected by their shifting surroundings.

LIVRO illuminates and celebrates a passion for the written word. A steadfast companion in times of trouble, an essential communicator in matters of the heart, a book itself can bridge cultures and seas, and for an emigrant, it can be the key to a new world.  

THE PIANO CEMETERY

The Lázaro family are carpenters who would rather be piano-makers. In the dusty back room of their carpentry shop in Lisbon is the ‘piano cemetery', filled with broken-down pianos that provide the spare parts needed for repairing and rebuilding instruments all over the city. It is a mysterious and magical place, a place of solace, a dreaming place and, above all, a trysting place for lovers. Peixoto weaves the tragic true story of the marathon-runner, Francisco Lázaro, into a rich narrative of love, betrayal, domestic happiness and dashed hopes.

PRAISE FOR THE PIANO CEMETARY:

“A superb family saga”— The Times

“Almost unbearably moving”

“A lyrical family saga ... Peixoto’s triumph is in the way he makes us feel, in fewer than three hundred pages, that we have spent decades with this family’”

-- Financial Times

“One of Portugal’s most acclaimed novelists … There are moments of illumination, notably the depiction of rapturous first love and subsequent domestic violence”— Daily Mail

“A rolling, elegiac and undoubtedly musical novel”—Metro

“Peixoto has an extraordinary way of perceiving, conveyed in his original choices of language and imagery”—Times Literary Supplement

“A story of sex and treachery, of ambition and frustration, of a mostly thwarted desire to please … Peixoto has an acute ear for cadence, a sharp eye for the luminous image and a good nose for the pungent”— Independent

Author's official website: joseluispeixoto.blogs.sapo.pt

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