True Crime: Afonso Reis Cabral’s Novel But We Love You

The incomprehensible entered Afonso Reis Cabral’s life when he was 16 years old. Back then, in March 2006, Portugal’s newspapers and TV news were full of headlines about a crime: the transsexual Brazilian Gisberta Salce Júnior was sadistically tormented, sexually abused and killed by a group of young people in Porto. At the time, Cabral could not imagine that some of the perpetrators were younger than himself. They lived in a Catholic home for children from broken families, where they are said to have been sexually abused.

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