The Republic of Dreams

…A república dos sonhos (1984; The Republic of Dreams). Fernando Gabeira’s O que é isso, companheiro? (1980; “What’s This, Pal?”) and Alfredo Sirkis’s Os carbonários (1980; “The Carbonari”), both testimonies by political exiles, also became best sellers. In 1978 a political opening-up (abertura) paved the way for the redemocratization that…

In works such as A república dos sonhos (1984; The Republic of Dreams), she used poetic language and complex lexical combinations, including the suspension of sentences in the middle of a thought. That book, her best-known and considered her most-important work, is a semiautobiographical novel about a Galician family…