bibliography – novels
How Much I Loved – Fernando Pessoa and the Women in His Life
28 November 1935. Fernando Pessoa is admitted to the Hospital of São Luís dos Franceses in Lisbon, suffering from severe abdominal pain. During her shift, nurse Alice tries to treat not only his physical pain but also the ailments of his soul, challenging him to revisit his life story, so deeply marked by the presence of so many female figures.
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D. Teresa de Távora – The King's Mistress
When Lisbon trembled beneath her feet, D. Teresa de Távora remembered every prophetic word that Father Malagrida had written to her. Every desperate cry she heard in the city’s ruined streets was proof that she was the cause of all that misfortune. Her sinful deeds. Her beauty, her sensuality, the shameful adultery involved in her love affair with the King of Portugal…
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D. Estefânia – A Tragic Love
When D. Estefânia left the Church of São Domingos hand in hand with her husband, D. Pedro V, King of Portugal, the voices of the Portuguese people seemed to foretell her fate: “The Queen is doomed! She is headed for the chapel!”
Three drops of blood had stained her immaculate white dress. The young German princess did not have the strength to bear the weight of the magnificent tiara that D. Pedro had given her as a token of his love.
A devoted, pure and passionate love between two kindred spirits, united in purpose, for fourteen months.
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The Serpent's Gaze
“Give men the little they ask for, and ask of them everything you want,” her mother would whisper to teach her how to escape poverty.
But Maria dos Prazeres instinctively went far beyond any lesson. “She has the gaze of a serpent,” people said. And Prazeres’s venom soon began emptying the wallets of the wealthy men she slept with in order to feed the poor who came to her for help.
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COLD
Frio is Sara Rodi’s first novel, originally published in 2000 (when the author, then 22 years old, still wrote under the name Sara Rodrigues). Acclaimed by critics, who regarded her as one of the breakthrough writers of her generation, it returned to the market eleven years later in a new edition published by a new publishing house founded by the author herself.
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