Every summer, Isabel and her cousins spend their holidays at their grandmother's house in Enxabarda, a small mountain village in the Portuguese hinterland. Life there is different from the city: you can walk barefoot, leave your doors wide open, never take water or electricity for granted, and rely on a deep, mutual solidarity with your neighbors. Today, facing an increasingly urgent climate crisis and an uncertain future, Isabel looks back at her past, seeking in her grandmother’s ways potential lessons on how to protect what remains and how to survive.
Isabel Minhós Martins is the cofounder of Planeta Tangerina, the acclaimed Portuguese publisher specializing in picture books, and Come sopravvivere a un’ondata di calore is her debut novel.
- sharing in the childhood and teenage years of Portuguese children, and building a world far removed from the city;
- questioning what we can do today to safeguard the future;
- recounting an adventure lived during the summer holidays.
