A fence-sitting journalist under the Salazar dictatorship in 1930s Portugal is forced to commit himself and emerges a hero. The protagonist is a middle-aged editor keeping out of politics by editing a cultural journal. The turning point comes when he hires a young assistant who turns out to be a revolutionary. By an Italian writer, author of Requiem.
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