Signs of Fire by Jorge de Sena [U.K. TRADE PAPERBACK] 1999 • Carcanet • English Language First Edition

Signs of Fire by Jorge de Sena 

FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION [1999] CARCANET PRESS (PORTUGUESE FICTION)

1999 new english translation.  1st printing.

U.K. Trade paperback  is in very good condition. 

Cover shows some shelf wear, mostly to edges.  Book reads like new w.  minor discoloration to text block.

Signs of Fire is set in Portugal at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Jorge is a young student on holiday with his uncle in the resort of Figueira da Foz. His uncle shelters two Spaniards, fugitives from the police. Portugal supports Franco: the two men if captured would be returned to certain death.

Jorge joins his usual summer crowd of friends. Some of them plot to steal a boat, rescue the Spaniards and smuggle them out of Portugal to join up with the Republicans. Jorge falls in love with Mercedes, the sister of a conspirator, but she is engaged to Almeida, a sailor co-opted to pilot the boat to Spain.