Meteorite in Galvish

A meteorite hurtles toward a small village in Portugal, Galveas. The night is quiet, everyone is asleep. The dogs suddenly stir, the animals making frightened noises. The silence that had settled over the village is too still. Suddenly, the meteorite falls. Everyone wakes up, rushing out of their homes to see what caused the terrifying, deafening sound. Has the world ended? Has Judgment Day arrived? As soon as they step into the streets, they are overwhelmed by the smell of sulfur that permeates everything: the bread, the water, even the people. They forget the natural scent of things because of the sulfurous smell and taste. "e;Galveas"e; is a novel whose protagonist is a village that binds all its inhabitants to it with an invisible thread, drawing them in at any time and in any place. A village that determines the fate of everyone within it, even the dogs in the streets. "e;Galveas senses its people, and gives them the world, the streets that stretch as far as their lives. And one day, it embraces them within itself, like children returning to their mother's womb. Galveas always protects its children."e; In beautiful, poetic literary language, the Portuguese author Jose Luis Paixao presents his novel about a village, a group of people, some dogs, and a meteorite.