Without slipping into cliché or melodrama, writing about old age isn’t easy. Teolinda Gersão manages to do so with wisdom in the novel Passagens. Told without fuss or ornament, Ana’s story has the force of plain evidence.

EDUARDO PITTA, REVISTA SÁBADO.

This novel by Teolinda Gersão belongs to that sphere of the great art of our time—the theatre of life and life as theatre—here shaped in a structure that places us before a stage on which a contemporary human drama unfolds, where every word spoken by its characters is addressed to us directly, as if each of them knew us intimately.

To read this novel is to read ourselves. Its beauty lies in an artistic feat—reserved for only a handful of writers—of holding our “gaze” to a light that both points us toward the infinite and enlarges us in life.

VAMBERTO FREITAS, AÇORIANO ORIENTAL.

The art of narrative in TG lies in the supreme mastery of creating small mental mazes from the characters’ isolated “utterances”: each one, speaking to itself, fragmentarily and discontinuously, adds a new element to the construction of the overall labyrinth that makes up the story’s general fabric. Passagens unfolds within the characters’ consciousness, as if the novel were a gigantic mental monad.

MIGUEL REAL, JORNAL DE LETRAS

Prémio Fernando Namora, 2015

«Os segredos das famílias. As mentiras, as histórias falsas, que dão origem a memórias falsas.
Os grandes erros que alguém comete, e são pagos pelas gerações seguintes. Mesmo que se queira apagá-los, silenciá-los, estão lá. E voltam à superfície para serem pagos.»