​​Sintra, year 1348. The black plague ravages the region and the country. João Lourenço, the local notary, realizes that he has contracted the terrible disease and understands that he only has one week left to live. In a captivating narrative, João Lourenço reviews his life, in a memory full of emotions and which is also the memory of medieval Portugal.

 

“A small masterpiece of sumptuous austerity.”

Daniel Bermond, Lire magazine, France - 2003

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​Translated into French (ed. Phébus)

and Italian (ed. Spolia)