Beja: “Vale da Senhora da Varzim, Penamacor”, book by José Jorge Cameira.
“Stories that I saw, I saw and experienced in this village between 1958 e 1969”, are the accounts of the experience of José Jorge Cameira, book author “Vale da Senhora da Varzim, Penamacor”, locality where he lived for 11 year old.
Citizen Beja since April 1970, 22 years after being born in Lourenço Marques, current Maputo, in Mozambique, country for their parents had emigrated in 1945, when he arrived to provide military service in the Infantry Regiment (RI) 3, José Jorge Cameira, will present his first book.
“Vale da Senhora da Varzim, Penamacor”, was published about a dozen days ago and will be presented to the public the next day 4 of December, 21h30, the Municipal Library José Saramago, in Beja.
The book tells the “Story” Joseph Cameira lived in Portugal, after you arrive in Mozambique, in his first official residence in a village of the county Penamacor, Valley name of Lady of Varzim, which first arrived in 1951, and whose name was then Vale de Lobo, in the Castelo Branco district.
When Lidador News, Joseph recalls that Cameira “it was passed 7 years that I began to experience the best village hence consider and write in the book that lived in the Middle Ages, with all the inherent hardships – malnutrition, absence of electricity, tap water and sanitation. This means that young people like me do not divertissemos and how. So I collected a number of stories I saw, I lived and heard”, justified.
The historical context is the responsibility of Dr Constantine Piçarra, Professor and Historian of Castro Verde, this because, justifies the author of the book “It has to do with the delay of the country's inland villages before 25, in the case of a book County village of Penamacor and I lived directly this delay. And I related this with truthful stories”
José Jorge Cameira, has 70 year old, retired bank CGD, father of 3 children, will publish in November, another book, this photo of great natural beauty that always caught in the Lower Alentejo and whose title is “My sensitivity”.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
