INTO MACAU

Plot

Nam Van is the Chinese name for Praia Grande. The long stretch of sand, with its graceful curve, has become, in the course of the centuries, an elegant artery of the city, the nerve center of Macao's administrative and social life, and a residential area preferred by the population. Today, with the works in the bay, it has turned into an inner avenue far from the sea.

I was born in its vicinity and much of my childhood took place in the shade of its centuries-old trees. Today I live just around the corner, in a house that I made my home. On certain nights of silence and mystery, I hear the roar of the waters, hitting the granites of the wall, bringing the strangest tropical scents with the breeze.

Praia Grande, with the ancient landscape of its junks and the odyssey of its heroic and adventurous lorchers, inspired my first writings and lulled my incipient writer's dreams. Praia Grande fed the depths of my sensibility and imagination, with the nostalgia of its twilights and the sadness of its winter mists.