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Lucky in Love

by David Mourao-Ferreira · 1986

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A novel set in Lisbon in 1986, in which the author and the narrator are different people. The image of Janus at the crossroads, looking back and forward, to the past and the future, runs though the book.

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adult
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medium · 256 pages

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