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Os anxos de Amalia

By Xavier Frías Conde

About this book

Amalia wants to know whether angels exist. She asks her mother, father and her two grandmothers, who are very wise. But everyone tells her a different thing. So finally Amalia decides to investigate herself. In the night she closes her eyes and…

Book fragment

–Mum —Amalia asks—, do angels exist?

Amalia’s mother smiles. She looks at the drawings of angels that the girl has on the table, they all have naughty faces.

Her mother is a grown-up. She does not believe in angels, as most grown ups do.

—Angels were invented to protect children.

—But do they exist? —Amalia insists.

—No... That is just children’s fantasy.