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Smiling in the Darkness

by Adelaide Freitas
language: english
Publisher: Letras Lavadas, September of 2020 ‧
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«Many people of Portuguese descent take pride in claiming that the word saudade is untranslatable. In reality, we come close with a melding of bittersweet nostalgia, bone-deep longing, and an endless yearning for what one can never have again—or indeed may never have had. Adelaide Freitas dipped her pen in saudade to tell of family separation and bonds that never loosen. In her authentic Azorean voice, she recounts the immigrant experience and centrifugal impulses that force people apart in spite of their desperation to cling to one another. In their sensitive rendering, the translators have captured the nuances of Freitas’s novel Smiling in the Darkness, with special care for those who have her native language in their heritage and heartfelt saudade for its loss.»

Anthony Barcellos

Smiling in the Darkness

by Adelaide Freitas

Property Description
ISBN: 9789897352881
Publisher: Letras Lavadas
Release Date: September of 2020
Language: English
Dimensions: 160 x 230 x 19 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 230
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Travel Literature
EAN: 9789897352881

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adelaide Freitas

-Ilha de S. Miguel, em 1949- Fez Estudos Superiores na América: Lic, na Southeastern Massachusetts University; Mestrado, na City University of New York. Regressou a Portugal e foi convidada para a Univ.dos Açores.Criou o Center for English Speaking Cultures,foi Directora do Depart. de Línguas e Literaturas Modernas. Fez o Doutoramento em 1987 sobre a obra de Herman Melville: Moby-Dick A Ilha e o Mar - Metáforas do Carácter do Povo Americano. Obras publicadas:De emigração Tecido, Viagem ao Centro do Mundo, Regresso a Casa...; Nordeste: E no Princípio Era a Ilha (prosa poética) Foi Presidente do Inst.de Acção Social da RAA.

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