by Maria Ondina Braga · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722105767
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«Nocturno em Macau» is the novel by Maria Ondina Braga, published by Caminho in paperback (216 pages, in Portuguese).
The novel is set in the city of Macau in the 1960s, in the teachers' residence of a girls' school. Ester, the only non-Chinese woman in the group, seeks solace in contemplating a letter from Lu Si-Yuan that she will never read, while cats prowl at night and the cityscape becomes steeped in melancholy.
Published in 1991, it won the Prémio Eça de Queirós and is part of the collection «O Campo da Palavra».
Recommended for readers of Portuguese literature and for those seeking stories set in 1960s Macau.
