Eduardo Quive - A Cor da Sombra

“In his debut prose book, Eduardo Quive has achieved what many prose writers strive for throughout their lives: a writing style that is both sensitive and sharp, enchanting without ever detaching itself from a daily life that excludes and negates our shared humanity.” – Mia Couto

In *The Color of Your Shadow*, by Eduardo Quive, we are thrown into the heart of a shattered family, where the past is not memory—it is an open wound. The story unfolds through two voices: that of Eurípedes, who carries in his eyes the image of his sister on the verge of suicide, and that of Anchia, marked from an early age by abandonment, prejudice, and a violence that seems to haunt her.

United by a shared pain, both find themselves facing what they thought was buried: the return of Anchia's father—the same man who once tried to sell her for a sacrificial ritual. Between trauma and resistance, guilt and survival, the novel invites the reader to traverse the deep shadows of the human condition.