Chronicles of Mindelo is the debut book by columnist Rocca Vera-Cruz. Through sarcasm, irony, and sharp social criticism, the author offers a vivid portrait of life in the city of Mindelo and across the island of São Vicente.
The book delves into the island’s everyday realities: the lives of the poor, prostitutes, drug addicts, and alcoholics; the young girl from the outskirts working in a Chinese shop; beggars asking for food in restaurants; people who drink alcohol constantly; and Praça Estrela, portrayed as the very heart of the world. Each chronicle captures fragments of a society marked by struggle, contradiction, and resilience.
With a sagacious and cunning pen, Vera-Cruz depicts the people, places, and experiences of Mindelo in an indelible way—charged with raw emotion, wild feeling, love and pain, joy and sadness, tears and revolt—always inseparable from a persistent and stubborn hope.
Publisher: ORKKA International
Publication date: 2022
Book Format: Paperback
Print length: 158 pages
Language: Portuguese and Cape Verdean
Chronicles of Mindelo is the debut book by columnist Rocca Vera-Cruz. Through sarcasm, irony, and sharp social criticism, the author offers a vivid portrait of life in the city of Mindelo and across the island of São Vicente.
The book delves into the island’s everyday realities: the lives of the poor, prostitutes, drug addicts, and alcoholics; the young girl from the outskirts working in a Chinese shop; beggars asking for food in restaurants; people who drink alcohol constantly; and Praça Estrela, portrayed as the very heart of the world. Each chronicle captures fragments of a society marked by struggle, contradiction, and resilience.
With a sagacious and cunning pen, Vera-Cruz depicts the people, places, and experiences of Mindelo in an indelible way—charged with raw emotion, wild feeling, love and pain, joy and sadness, tears and revolt—always inseparable from a persistent and stubborn hope.
Publisher: ORKKA International
Publication date: 2022
Book Format: Paperback
Print length: 158 pages
Language: Portuguese and Cape Verdean
