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Title: The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge, Margaret Jull Costa ISBN: 0-15-100658-X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Life on a Portuguese Farm
Comment: I don't get it. Francisco Dias, the father, works his big farm in Portugal with the help of his many sons. He drives them out of bed at 4 in the morning and there they are, shovelling manure. Only the youngest, Walter, refuses. He won't shovel. And he gets away with it. Walter and his teenage daughter are the main characters of this book. She pines for her father, whom she has rarely ever seen. He keeps circling the globe, sending letters with beautifully drawn birds in them. Everybody wonders why he draws these birds. And everybody talks about his army blanket that he uses to sleep on, either alone or with female company. Everybody is shocked about this. But when his daughter grows up and spends her nights around town, nary an eyebrow is raised. Everybody has either beautiful or bad thoughts, and the landscape is poetic, too. This has nothing to do with a Portuguese dirt farmer. Nor with a normal human condition.
I just don't get it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent , intelligent, beautiful writing from Portugal
Comment: Lidia Jorge was born in Algarve, which has now become like the French Riviera, invaded by tourism. Yet her childhood was formed and informed in a different era, of simplicity, symbols and revelations. I had the privilege to visit with her for ONCE SHE WAS A CHILD, my book of encounters with women writers telling the story of childhood in times of upheaval (now a completed manuscript). Before our meeting I read one short story of hers only and found it captivating. I strongly recommend getting hold of every book of hers that finally gets translated. It's the best financial investment as you'll go back to them again and again, as if you bought a thousand books for the price of one! (How many so called "best sellers" qualify as such?)
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Title: The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri ISBN: 0395927218 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa, Peter Sis ISBN: 0151005958 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 08 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Garden, Ashes: A Novel by Danilo Kis, William J. Hannaher, Aleksandar Hemon ISBN: 156478326X Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Way to Paradise : A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Natasha Wimmer ISBN: 0374228035 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 19 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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