Carlos Costa - No Resto do Dia

What could a scientist dedicated to the study of vultures, a writer immersed in the creation of yet another work, and a bibliotherapist consumed by the research of her grandmother's biography have in common?

Between the present and the last decades of the 20th century, from Porto to the Douro International Natural Park and from there to Sub-Saharan Africa, from the history of rally racing to that of film clubs, from Nobel Prizes in literature to the trafficking of food, the rest of the day explores intimate, social, and political contradictions, reflecting on how we are transformed by what we do or even how we transform ourselves through what we do.
This is a narrative led by people and birds, dead and alive, imagined again and again, a story, or several stories, of resistance to the end of possibilities, in a constant demand for hope, so often transformed into pain and revolt, hope in love, in work, in the planet. After all, what remains for us in the rest of the day?
Continuing his elective affinity for fiction grounded in fragments of reality — as if drawing boundaries around imagination itself — Carlos Costa gives us a powerful novel, hard to put down, where we will certainly be astonished, whether with what we recognize in ourselves or with what the author refuses to let us find.