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JOSE  E. ABREU

AUTHOR BIO :

For those who do not know José E. Abreu, this is the third work of fiction of the author who started in 1999 with Wall Paper. His second novel Ask the trees, was published in 2002 and his third novel, Urban Love has recently come out.

José E. Abreu, finds the neverending material for his fiction all around him. “To write stories of people, I need to be able to love hate itself.” Following the universal precept that good intentions are best left outside literature, José Abreu dives in a world where each character hides and shelters in their masks until the ultimate and surprising unmasking takes place.

With an experience of learning from cinema and its fascination, this young writer is, essentially, a story-teller. Led by the cinephile’s instinct, he never forgets the rhythm of the narrative, in an imaginative game, holding the reader through the suspense that fuels the well structured thriller. Guided by a sure hand, we stand before an unpretentious narrative, filled with liveliness and humour from the details of everyday life, the traits of personality and hilarious episodes.

A SUMMARY OF THE BOOKS : 

“URBAN LOVE” -  People are increasingly tense and confused – and less feeling. Altruism and egotism alternate at schizophrenic rhythm with a surge toward self-destruction. In this hectic rush come surges too of redemptive impulse and some will seek to remedy a dreadful past.

The setting of this story is a capital city: the guiding thread an investigation of bizarre attacks on the physical being of two dancers of the night. The journalist Eduardo has the main substance.

Carolina is an unusual girl. She is the journalist’s daughter and holds him in unconditional regard. Between her and her stepmother Madalena tenseness has grown sharper with the passage of time. Madalena for her part has a parallel existence. She is having a love affair with a writer and as his principal admirer she provides him with material for fiction traced from the stories covered by the journalist husband. Carolina in a dream has a premonition indicating the stepmother’s death.

The attacks on the dancers continue and the characters are disturbed since all have a motive to carry out the hideous deed.

The journalist, for a news story.

The writer, for raw material for his writing.

 “WALL PAPER” - January in some city of some country. Cars rush by like people hurrying for a purpose. Abílio Motrena is living with his mother Liliana and his father Inocêncio for two whole weeks, by the mere circumstance of heavy rains and the poor state of his school.

Writing a poem about the family without its help. Atypical in a child’s education.

Abílio was lacking in imagination.

He was not used to living with his closest family and much less knew how to write a poem. He lacked the life experience to conjure up the words and their meaning, the rhythms and their glories, the order and disorder of life that would give him deeper feeling. He lacked the emotional aerial to help him transmit something of his own imagining.

For a fortnight, the child ruddy and spotted in the face and elsewhere, was making the effort to carry out the task assigned by the Portuguese language teacher, with huge difficulties, some bewilderment, and a deal of ignorance on what was happening before his eyes and around him.

For every passing day, a discovery, a confusion, a chaos, a hidden lie, a betrayal, an anomaly, an observation, in the bosom of a society increasingly indifferent to the individual, a society of uniformity to annihilate the potential difference innate in each ego.

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