Launch of the book “Ponta Gea” by João Paulo Borges Coelho
Launch of the book “Ponta Gea” by João Paulo Borges Coelho
After being presented by Fernando Lima at Camões-Centro Cultural Portugês of Maputo, on November 7, the book Ponta Gea by João Paulo Borges Coelho, will now be presented in the city of Beira.
Ponta Gea is a book about childhood. The title comes from the name of a neighborhood in the city of Beira. Composed of fifteen texts that intersect and suggest a chronological sequence, but can also be read in isolation, it is not a childhood memoir, but an exercise in fiction, of how the world was seen from that age onwards. which, as Proust wrote, "is believed to have created what we have named."
Although of a fictional nature, the texts rely on facts of the event and recover figures and events that the time has been wearing, in some cases to the irremediable limit of forgetfulness. Being also somehow a book on the discovery of nature, this oblivion finds here a metaphor for its height, inasmuch as Ponta Gea, the physical scenery of the described adventures, runs the risk of being swept by the sea.
João Paulo Borges Coelho (1955) is a historian and novelist. He spent his childhood in Mozambique and attended the Liceu in Beira. He holds a PhD from the University of Bradford (UK). He is a full professor of History at Eduardo Mondlane University and is a visiting professor of the Masters in African History at the University of Lisbon. He has published several texts and essays on History in national and international newspapers and magazines. In 2012 he received his doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Aveiro.
He made his debut in fiction with As Duas Sombras do Rio (2003) and saw several award-winning books, among them The Visits of Dr. Valdez (José Craveirinha Prize, 2006) and The Eye of Hertzog (Leya Prize 2009).
Date and Time: Wednesday, December 6 2017 at 18h00
Entrance: Free
Address: Rua António Enes no. 148/149, Beira
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