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(Mafalda Ivo Cruz)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"550\"\u003eA subtle meditation on what remains of a continent that no longer knows who it is. The book traverses cities, memories and ruins, composing an intimate geography of Europe beyond treaties or borders. A geography of gestures, voices, silences, guilt, beauty and melancholy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"1061\"\u003eThe text moves between narrative and essay. The voice that narrates is at once personal and collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"1061\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e“Nothing is ever truly lost, it only changes its language\u003cstrong data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"895\"\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1519\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1083\"\u003eMafalda Ivo Cruz\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Portuguese writer, translator and essayist. Her work is distinguished by its search for an emotional truth. In \u003cem data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1321\"\u003ePequena Europa\u003c\/em\u003e, she confirms herself as one of the most elegant and intense voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. 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