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The Birthday of the Hidden Star
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Rui Talaia
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the night before his birthday, Rui wanders Maputo's silent streets and discovers a mysterious leather-bound book at a crossroads. When he touches it, the city dissolves into a luminous house built from memory, belief, and love. Each door opens onto a chapter of his life - the Guest House he raised with Ana, the children who stand as pillars of time, the forgotten birthdays that shaped him, and the voices of loves that left and returned.
Guided by a voice that is both teacher and tide, Rui must walk through rooms of stone and ink, confront debts unpaid, and learn that the true architecture of life is not made of walls but of windows that let love breathe.
A meditation on family, loss, love, and the art of becoming a world within oneself, The Birthday of the Hidden Star is at once memoir and myth, intimate and cosmic. It is a book about carrying others, being carried, and discovering that every threshold asks for surrender.
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