Please note, this event will be held in Portuguese.
What to expect from this book launch event?
Come and celebrate the relaunch of “Agora e na hora da nossa morte” by Susana Moreira Marques, presented by José Mário Silva. There will be time for questions, interaction with the author, and the opportunity to purchase signed copies of the book.
About The Author
Susana Moreira Marques is the author of four books of literary non-fiction, most recently Third Floor, Stairs Only: Notes from Lisbon, as well as one children’s book. Her first book, Now and at the Hour of Our Death, was translated into English, Spanish and French and was a Book of the Year in the New York Times. Her work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Literary Hub and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation (Colombia), the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland) and Art Omi (US), amongst others. As a journalist, she worked for the BBC World Service, Público, Jornal de Negócios, Antena 1 and won several prizes, including the UNESCO Human Rights and Integration Journalism Award (Portugal). One of the editors of the literary magazine Mamute, she also writes for cinema. She lives in Lisbon with her two daughters.
About the book - "Agora e na hora da nossa morte"
A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques’ book speaks about death in a fresh way.
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