“A Dog in the Middle of the Road” by Isabela Figueiredo: Goodbye to Narrow Hearts
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The story takes place in Lisbon in the 2010s, but is rooted in Portuguese history in the second half of the 20th century. lillisphotography / iStockphoto/Getty Images
In this graceful novel, two inhabitants of the same Lisbon building, walled up in solitude, open up and listen to each other.
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I subscribeIsabela Figueiredo's poetry resists explanation. It's an enigma, like the two outcasts who inhabit her beautiful latest novel with unsuspected grace. He, José Viriato, whose "activity consists of going through the trash ," she, Beatriz, who stores computer screens in her small home amidst multiple sealed boxes. Neighbors in a building on the south bank of Lisbon, one day they begin to combine their solitudes and their secrets to the point of belying fate. "The future is not written," José Viriato told us in the preamble to A Dog in the Middle of the Road . We will end up thinking that it may be true. Narrow hearts can unfold.
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