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A Sombra das Árvores no Inverno
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This is a story of survival of those who have lost almost everything and of love that refuses to die, even when the rest has collapsed. Céline, the daughter of a prostitute who was stabbed in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, spends her adolescence in an institution and ends up joining an immigrant from Mali, who prides himself on having a uniform with a cap and all, but is run over by fate and accused of a crime he did not commit. Aïsha – the daughter of a wise man who understands the language of the stones and reads in the signs of nature the omen of destruction – lives in a city about to be invaded by jihadists and is forced to hide her children in a makeshift shelter, while her husband remains in the ruined hospital, helping to save lives Nadia, who has carried heavy guilt since childhood, He faces the pain of having a son lured by extremist networks. Desperate, she tries to survive her absence and finds the strength to welcome two refugee children who arrive completely alone, carrying with them the weight of war. The lives of all these characters are intertwined in a path of separations, losses and possible reconstruction. The Shadow of the Trees in Winter – winner of the LeYa Prize unanimously – is a novel about families broken by violence and fanaticism, but also about tenderness, the instinct for protection and the silent courage capable of being reborn in the midst of chaos.
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