O Cometa

by Deana Barroqueiro

Em "O Cometa - Uma Aventura Impossível", prossegue o relato da viagem de Pedro Alvares Cabral, mas na nau de um outro herói, Bartolomeu Dias, que ao ver um ameaçador cometa parado nos céus, recorda a sua viagem treze anos antes quando dobrou o terrível Cabo das Tormentas, feito nunca antes conseguido, ligando pela primeira vez o Oceano Atlântico ao Oceano Índico.
Enquanto Skywalker, o herói da Guerra das Estrelas, navega pelo espaço, à velocidade da luz, numa nave automatizada cujo computador lhe fornece o luxo de um hotel de cinco estrelas, lhe programa sem erro as rotas desconhecidas e lhe coloca os inimigos na mira de armas “laser, num passado longínquo bem real, sem petróleo, electricidade ou, energia nuclear, Bartolomeu Dias navegou quase dois anos por abismos de água nunca antes percorridos, no calor tórrido do Verão ou contra os ventos gélidos do Inverno, nessa minúscula arca malcheirosa e infestada de parasitas, feita de madeira, ferro, cordas, pano e sofrimento que era a “caravela de descobrir”, movida unicamente pela força do vento e o sonho de um homem.
Comunicando com os outros dois barcos da sua minúscula armada por sinais de fogo, fumo ou tiros de bombarda, bebeu água salobra e comeu muitas vezes carne apodrecida, cheia de vermes. Singrou os mares quase às cegas (não era possível calcular a longitude), marcando as novas latitudes com astrolábios, balestilhas, quadrantes, ampulhetas e bússolas canhestras; sem outras armas de fogo (ainda por inventar) para além das bombardas na caravela, combateu os seus inimigos – animais monstruosos e raças de gentes para ele mais alienígenas do que os extraterrestres de George Lucas ou Steven Spielberg –, com espada, punhal, lança e virotões de besta.

239 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002

About the author

English:
Deana Barroqueiro contacts:
E-mail: barroqueiro.deana@gmail.com
Homepage: http://deanabarroqueiro.blogspot.pt
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Deana Barroqueiro most recent works:
1640 (Casa das Letras/Leya), 2017, This new book is about the conflicts and wars in Europe, during the 17th century, the rebellion of Catalunha and Portugal and the Portuguese Monarchy Restauration.
- The Pirate of the Seven Seas (O Corsário dos Sete Mares - Fernão Mendes Pinto), 2012. Adapted as a movie script font, by director João Botelho for his «Peregrinação», in 2017.
The book is about the travels and discoveries of the portuguese adventurer Fernão Mendes Pinto, in the Eastern World of the Sixteenth Century, published by Casa das Letras/LEYA.
- The Temptation of the Serpent (Tentação da Serpente)(2012) is a re-edition of The Novel of the Bible (O Romance da Bíblia), published by Ésquilo - Edições e Multimedia. A feminine look into The Old Testament: an original and polemic work about the women and men of the sacred book.See more: http://tentacaodaserpente.blogspot.pt/
- The Spy of King John II (O Espião de D. João II), published by Ésquilo - Edições e Multimedia, in October 2009, is a fabulous adventure of the Portuguese spy Pêro da Covilhã, in search of The Prester John and the route by land to India's rich spices.

Deana Barroqueiro was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States of America, on July 23, 1945. Daughter of Portuguese parents, when she was two years old she went to live in Lisbon, Portugal, with her mother, brother and sister. She always had the passion for reading and writing and she graduated in Portuguese and French Language and Literature, in the Lisbon University, Department of Languages and Literatures.
"I began to write poetry when I woke up from a three days' coma, after an attempted suicide at the age of twenty years. Now I write historical novels and short stories, doing almost all my research and writing at home, in seclusion and through the night, when everybody is sleeping and I enter in another dimension where nobody else has room. I stopped writing when I got married - as these two passions were not compatible - and, in order to mitigate the hunger for writing, which was my true essence, I did with my students countless projects of creative writing of stories and plays, publishing several works with many educational and cultural institutions".
The success of those school publications was an incentive for Deana Barroqueiro to write for a broader public her historical works, having published, from 2000 to 2008, nine novels and two books of tales - the first of them, Erotic Tales of the Ancient Testament, is translated and edited in Spain, Italy and Brazil.
Deana Barroqueiro loves the Portuguese Language and Culture and the World's History of the XV to XVIII Centuries, the period she has been studying for more than twenty years, and being by nature or addiction a storyteller, she couldn't resist to the urge of sharing with everybody interested in the same subjects, her surprising discoveries about the adventurous or tragic (nevertheless so human and close to us) lives of the historical characters that she found in her researches.
On November 21, 2003, in the United States of America, during the gala soirée for the attribution of the Literary Contest Proverbo Awards, of whose jury she was part, the writer received a praise by the Newark Municipal Council, "in recognition of her contribution for the world's culture" and " through the excellence of her written word that has brought pride to the Portuguese-American community of Newark", she was "commended for her commitment and support of the Arts" and by the promotion of the Portuguese language and culture among other communities of America, Canada and Europe.

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Reviews

[Leonel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mais uma aventura da Epopeia dos Portugueses. A autora não nos deixa respirar. Consegue a nossa atenção do princípio ao fim. Excelente