by Francisco Moita Flores · Casa Das Letras · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724622453
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«Segredos de Amor e Sangue» is the historical novel by Francisco Moita Flores, published by Casa das Letras in paperback (344 pages, in Portuguese).
Lisbon, 1830s. The novel revives the figure of the criminal Diogo Alves, who operated at the Águas Livres Aqueduct. The narrator, tavern keeper Manuel Alcanhões, in love with Isabel, witnesses the violence and poverty of a city taking its first steps towards Liberalism, in a country with 90% illiteracy.
Francisco Moita Flores wrote the screenplay for the film A Morte de Diogo Alves in 1997, which won the RTP Grand Prize for Fiction.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and past-set mysteries interested in 19th-century Lisbon and real crimes.
