It was for Tangerina that Caesar Amadeus played his Eternity that day.
Tangerina was born in Lisbon, in the old Alfama district, and grew up in Bex, with her mother, under a Montreux Jazz Festival poster. She was a pupil at the Gymnase de Burier, a brilliant student according to Professor Sissoko, and a true animal rights activist – even sentenced to prison.
Her life was worth a novel. Lilas is convinced. The novel is called Vanité. It speaks of the empire of rituals on our lives in exile.