Sonata da Saudade

This book defies classification in that, while it is a deeply poetic depiction of two contrasting locations - the crowded, bustling Lisbon during the final years of dictatorship in the early 1970s and the transitioning years to democracy after the April Revolution of 1974, and the austere but beautiful environment of Northern Scotland, it is also a philosophical discourse on the nature of freedom and artistic endeavour, where imagination may lead towards understanding and purpose in life. A...