Bento de Goes – A Long Journey Through Central Asia
Bento de Goes – A Long Journey Through Central Asia
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From the whispered mists of the Azores — those islands born of fire and salt — came a child whom darkness tried to claim. Yet women of unyielding spirit gathered around him, shielding his first breath like guardians of a trembling flame. Out of their defiance rose a life shaped by hunger, storm, and silence — an Azorean whose quiet radiance would one day stretch across the edges of the world, his footsteps already carrying the pulse of legend.
Henrique Levy’s visionary retelling summons back a figure almost surrendered to the centuries’ forgetting, a solitary traveler whose path seems to alter the very architecture of the earth. Through burning plains and breathing mountains, through realms where power dissolves like sand in the wind, he advances with a serenity that feels primordial. His journey becomes less a crossing of distance than a revelation: that worlds once wrapped in myth lie nearer to one another — and to us — than fear allows.
More hymn than history, this novel transforms Bento de Goes into a universal emblem of human possibility: a man who walks not to conquer but to comprehend, whose humility outlasts tyrants, and whose perseverance traces a fragile yet enduring cartography of hope. In his footsteps, continents converse; in his silence, the world listens. Bento de Goes stands as an epic for a fractured age, reminding us that wisdom is born of wonder, and that sometimes the greatest light rises from those whom history nearly allowed to disappear.
Diniz Borges, translator
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| Dimensões (C x L x A) | 23 × 15 × 1,5 cm |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9789897356421 |
| Edição | Janeiro 2026 |
| Idioma | Inglês |
| N.º Páginas | 156 |
| Encadernação | Capa mole |
| Editora | Letras Lavadas/Bruma Publications |
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Bento de Goes – A Long Journey Through Central Asia
Henrique Levy
Diniz Borges
Born in Praia da Vitória on Terceira Island, the Azores, he emigrated with his parents and brother to the United States at age 10. He teaches language, culture, and literature at California State University, Fresno, where he founded and directs the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI).
At Fresno State, he coordinates oral-history projects, transatlantic colloquia, writer communities, exchange programs with the University of the Azores, and the editorial work of Bruma Publications. These initiatives, dispersed like islands on a chart, share a core idea: culture moves, and the diaspora shapes its course. He has published eight books on the social and cultural life of the United States and the Azorean diaspora in North America, most recently Raízes e Horizontes (Roots and Horizons). His translations include eighteen volumes of poetry, fiction, history, and essays, as well as three anthologies that bring together contemporary voices. His work also includes creative nonfiction, literary criticism, and cultural essays. He is a contributing writer for several newspapers in the Azores and the Azorean Diaspora in the US and Canada.
His columns explore literature, culture, current events, language, identity, and migration. He also directs two digital platforms: Filamentos, dedicated to arts and letters in the Azores and diaspora, and Novidades, focused on cultural and social currents linking the islands and their global communities. Across these roles, his work centers on dialogue, memory, and the ways the Azores and their diaspora continue to speak to one another across distance and time.
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