“Tentativa de algo escrever” is Fernanda Bragança’s first novel. Absolutely unforgettable for anyone who reads it, the work takes us back in time to Trás-os-Montes in the 1960s and is full of an experience and language that is markedly archaic and regional, almost forgotten today. It is also, in this sense, an unmissable testimony of the time.
In a very graceful and simple way, it portrays the simplicity and dreams of a harsh and difficult childhood, where the sense of community and integrity were structuring values, as well as the permanent struggle of a mother for her freedom and independence or the portrait of a fragile and wise grandmother, dedicated to everyone’s well-being: teaching how to think, make decisions and accept mistakes.
An absolutely touching and rare book in terms of the impressive portraits he leaves us as a legacy.