Sinais de Fogo - four-leaf clover collection 48

Written over a period of more than twenty years, only interrupted by the author's death, Sinais de Fogo is Jorge de Sena's only novel and one of the most important works of 20th-century Portuguese literature.

Between his last high school days in Lisbon and summer holidays in Figueira da Foz, a young Jorge awakens to love, sexuality, and political and social reality, at a time when the civil war was about to break out in Spain and the dictatorship in Portugal was showing its first unequivocal signs. Simultaneously, this young man discovers himself as a poet.

A coming-of-age novel that is also a portrait of a generation amidst the turmoil that marked the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 1930s, Sinais de Fogo was published, unfinished, a year after the author's death in 1979, and is considered the masterpiece of one of the greatest names in Portuguese literature.