Synopsis

The Breath of Olive Trees is an intriguing work that combines fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, reminiscences, imagination and the author’s philosophical musings in an evocative tale with a surreal metaphorical ending. Along the way, the reality of life in late 1960’s Portugal under the right-wing dictatorship of António Salazar and his successor Marcello Caetano is graphically brought to life, as the author describes both the threat of imprisonment and possible torture for sedition and the life of hardship endured by the poorer members of society.

With this work, his second to be published in the English language and in the UK, António de Cairu confirms his reputation as an inspired and gifted creator of thought-provoking images through the use of the written word.

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