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Title	:	Equator
Author	:	Miguel Sousa Tavares
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	(first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Cultural. Portugal. European Literature. Portuguese Literature

Equator

Miguel Sousa Tavares

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 5475 Users | 229 Reviews

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It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valenca, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon’s grand and luxurious high society. But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos invites him to become governor of Portugal’s smallest colony, the island of São Tomé e Principe. Luis Bernardo is ill-prepared for the challenges of plantation life – used to a softer urban existence, he is shocked by the conditions under which the workers labour. But with the English closing in on São Tomé’s cocoa plantations, the island’s main means of survival, Luis Bernardo must endeavour to protect the island and its community.

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Original Title:	Equador
ISBN:	202066951X (ISBN13: 9782020669511)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Luís Bernardo Valença
Literary Awards:	Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (2006)

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Ratings: 4.05 From 5475 Users | 229 Reviews

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I would give 6 stars, if I could.

Read as part of an international book club. The first half of this book was really hard to get through as it set up the scene, but I really had to push myself through the rest of it. I was a little interested to see what would happen and just was not impressed. Wish I would have spent my time on more uplifting and purposeful books.

I was motivated to read this novel for an upcoming trip I am doing this Summer to Sao Tome. It was recommended in my Bradt Guide to Sao Tome & Principe, and this is one of the two novels available in English set in this African country. I am very glad I read it, for there is little information available about this country other than the basics offered by geography and history books.Luis Bernardo Valenca is a Portuguese, hedonist man living in Lisbon at the beginning of the 1900's. David

The author evidently did a lot of research about the political situation in Sao Tome in the early 1900's, which was evident. But, the story itself was a really boring, obvious romance. Blah.

My favourite Portuguese book. A beautiful romance between Portugal and the former African colonies.

'They will never...accept that the surreptitious slavery they practise...isn't a gift from Providence.', October 21, 2014 This review is from: Equator (Hardcover)Started this unsure exactly where Sao Tome is - feel I've learned an awful lot and been greatly entertained on the way.Well-written narrative, opening in 1905, when Luis Bernardo is asked to go leave his luxurious life to sort out problems in this godforsaken spot - the plantation owners here determinedly run their businesses using

It's such a good and magnificent book. Besides being good literature gives us a historical perspective of the early twentieth century.The story takes place in the Portuguese colony of São Tomé, at the time an important cocoa growing point.It is a book that makes us ardently to be in Africa and participate, as an observer, in the story of Luis Bernardo.I always thought this book would make a good Hoolywood movie!