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It took 14 days and 2,047 kilometers over a distance of 125cc, drawing an improvised imaginary line within another imaginary line, looking for a country, now published in a book.
The book is a publication by the author, which started from two self-imposed challenges: 1 – complete a tour of Portugal on a 125cc motorcycle during the electoral campaign; 2 – Have this trip written down and turned into a book in the shortest possible time.
An active reportage through the geographic, intimate and social accidents of our people, interspersed with an analysis of children’s country for adults of the mechanisms that the Portuguese use to define their collective will.
We start from the principle of ignorance: our cicerone for the electoral campaign is not an expert, he is not a commentator, he is no more knowledgeable about the subject than ordinary Portuguese.
We move behind the cameras and microphones of the televisions: If an election campaign is a television and advertising spectacle, we go looking for what happens behind the scenes, between the cables and the technicians, while the cameras are not recording.
We went on two wheels, in the cold of winter, without any compromise on the left or right.
Between the silence of the empty roads and the noise of the streets and rallies, we look for something called Portugal.
Hence, between January 17th and April 25th, 2022, this object was born, full of jackdaws and errors.
A personal attempt to draw what Portugal is, to see what our country means beyond its inflation rate, An economics and television reports.
If the author cannot immediately come to the conclusion that a country is an effective construction that each one carries within himself, his most megalomaniac desire as an author is that this little book can build bridges between these intimate countries, or perhaps make a hypothetical more distracted reader remember the construction called Portugal that he had forgotten inside his chest.
The book is available at https://ko-fi.com/s/e6c889205f