Afonso Cruz - Para Onde Vão os Guarda-Chuvas

The backdrop of this novel is a fantastical Orient, based on what we think its past was and believe to be its present, with all that this Orient has of magic, difference, and perverse. It tells the story of a man who longs to be invisible, a child who would like to fly like an airplane, a woman who wants to marry a man with blue eyes, a profoundly mute poet, a Russian general who is a kind of fighting rooster, a woman whose hair escapes from a cage, a passionate Indian, and a boy who has the entire universe inside his mouth.

A magnificent novel that opens with an illustrated story for children who no longer believe in Santa Claus and unfolds into a sublime tapestry of lives, woven with the threads and colors of the things we find, lose, and hope to find again