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Alves & Co. and Other Stories First Edition
Author(s): Eca de Queiroz (Author)
- Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
- Publication Date: 20 July 2012
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 172 pages
- ISBN-10: 1903517893
- ISBN-13: 9781903517895
Book Description
In this volume, comprising one short novel and six short stories, the reader is introduced to a dazzling variety of worlds and characters — a deceived husband who finds that jealousy is not the answer, a lovelorn Greek poet-turned-waiter working in a Charing Cross hotel, a saintly young woman soured by love, a follower of St Francis who learns that an entire life of virtue can be besmirched by one cruel act, Adam in Paradise pondering the pros and cons of dominion over the earth, Jesus healing a child, and a loyal nursemaid forced to make a terrible choice.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Queiroz is far greater than my own dear master, Flaubert.” — Emile Zola
About the Author
The Mandarin, The Relic, The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers, The Crime of Father Amaro, Cousin Bazilio, The Maias and The City and the Mountains, Alves & Co have so far been published.
Dedalus will publish the mystery of the Sintra Road in 2013.
Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers. She won the 1992 Portuguese Translation Prize for The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, and her translations of Eca de Queiroz’s novels The Relic(1996) and The City and the Mountains(2009) were shortlisted for the prize; with Javier Marias, she won the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for A Heart So White, and, in 2000, she won the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Jose Saramago’s All the Names.In 2008 she won the Pen Book-of-the Month-Club Translation Prize and The Oxford Weidenfeld Translatio
