For readers who love dystopia, this is a book I would highly recommend for everyone to read. Seriously, read on.
Now, imagine a place where you can't have any books, neither digital nor physical, and if someone found it or reported it, you would be arrested and all your books would be burned. Yea! A great absurdity that I can't even imagine, but that may be closer than we imagine. So we begin our story: “Having books is a crime. Report”. So in this story we find Alice who knows Santiago and in him finds a friend who shares several magnificent stories with her, thus becoming her grandfather in letters, as she says.
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Santiago, is a newcomer to Vila Nova de Gaia and is very welcome in the Crástino family, Alice's family, always carrying with him a secret book entitled Hilário Pena, the “little girl” as Alice is called by her family is very curious about the book. So we go back years and get to know Hilário Pena's story and what connection he has with Santiago.
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Hilary penalty is a man who commits a crime and who goes to prison indefinitely thanks to a gene called Gene-C, which all ‘bad guys’ but, curiously, Hilário doesn't, so he starts to stay in prison without having a trial for an indefinite period. after years of sharing a prison alone, now he has a friend to talk to, Hilário goes from being a man who thinks that “What books exist for” to a subject who no longer lives without reading.
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Divided into three parts, we have an instigating reading, which brings great reflection, various types of feeling, full of wonderful references and the power of how a book can be transformative. Ah, I loved Alice and Antonio. A big thank you to LC Agência de Comunicação and the author Fausto Panicacci for providing us with this wonderful reading and with an ending that I could not imagine in any way!
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