A SEA OF STRAW - Tecno-Libro

Will a man walk two thousand kilometres for a woman? in 1967, Ze? will. Salazar s Portugal has become a prison for him. 1966: When Jody, young mother and designer from the north of England, arrives on the Lisbon coast, she brings the .lure .of Swinging London to Portuguese painter Ze? s existing dreams of freedom. A nascent love is interrupted when, back in England, husband Michael forces her to choose between their 2-year-old daughter Anna and Ze?. And Ze?, at home in Lisbon and grounded by the state s secret police, can only wait. For both Jody and Ze?, love is revolution. And personal and political threads weave their story, a period piece set amid the then socially conservative North of England, the light and rugged landscapes of modern Portugal, and the darkness of the dying years of Europe s longest-running dictatorship. A Sea of Straw, with its pervading atmosphere of saudades, is a quest for love in revolutionary times. .