Margaret Jull Costa (trans.)
The Prodigious Physician
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A Portuguese poet and novelist, de Sena chose exile in Brazil, then California, rather than live under the Salazar dictatorship. To make a ...Read Review
Manuscript Found in Accra
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The entire plot of Manuscript Found in Accra occurs in the first ten pages. Coelho is the recipient of a translation of some ...Read Review
Seven Houses in France
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The Belgian occupation of the Congo was one of the bloodiest, cruelest events in modern history, a fact reflected in the title of ...Read Review
Raised from the Ground
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Nobel Prize Laureate José Saramago’s (1922-2010) most autobiographical novel opens with the statement “I was born in a family of landless peasants.” ...Read Review
The Land at the End of the World
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Biographical FictionLiteraryMilitary
Dr. Antonio Lobo Antunes served in the Portuguese army from 1971-1973 as a medic in Angola’s war for independence. The Land at ...Read Review
Small Memories
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The title of this delightful book says it all: brief snippets of Saramago’s early life in Portugal, from his earliest memories through ...Read Review
Cain
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This is the English edition of the last novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died in 2010. So while the author was ...Read Review
The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
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In this fifth book in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, the captain and his page, soldier in training Íñigo Balboa, experience a respite ...Read Review
The Crime of Father Amaro
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The novelist José Maria Eça de Queiroz is often compared to Dickens, a Dickens refined, without sentimentalism. Born in a small Portuguese ...Read Review
