Mia

von Octávio Viana

480 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

MIA is the first book in the collection "The Women We Love."Set between Paris, Monaco, Marseille, Portugal, Italy, and Tunisia, the narrator remembers Mia: an Algerian, Muslim, European woman-elegant, free, and impossible to reduce to a single definition. What begins as a story of desire and fascination becomes a novel about memory, belonging, class, identity, travel, and loss.Mia is not merely a woman who was loved. She is a way of looking at contemporary Europe. Through her, the book reveals how money, origin, religion, skin, language, and passports determine who is accepted, who is desired, who is tolerated, and who is treated as a threat. Without manifestos, without easy speeches, MIA exposes the politics hidden in intimate gestures: in a hotel, on a street, at a border, over dinner, in a room, in a farewell.At the same time, it is a deeply sensory novel. There are cafés in Paris, rooms in Monaco, roads through the Douro, light on skin, wine, silence, humor, sex, tenderness, and the bitter awareness that some people pass through our lives without ever fully belonging to us.