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Teolinda Gersao

I want you all to consider falling in love with a writer, you probably never heard of. I for sure didn't and I have to say: coming to Lisbon has opened my eyes to many new creative people, I never had on my screen before, if you know what I mean. Teolinda Gersao is 74 years old, but actually, she looks like 56 at the most. She is funny and smart. I've seen her at a reading here in Lisbon at the Centro Nacional Cultura  and I hadn't high expectations. Just curiosity drove me, basically. Three of her stories were read. I liked them all but I was most impressed by T he Woman who stole the Rain . She has written several novels, one of which is translated into english and it is called The Word Tree . It's on my to-read-list now, dealing with the colonial past of Portugal and set in Mozambique, where Gersao lived for a while. It seems that some of her books have also been translated into German, but they are all out of print. You can only get them 2nd hand. That is, by th...