The Maias

Awards:   Winner of PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize 2008 Winner of The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2008
Author:   Eca de Queiroz ,  Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher:   Dedalus Ltd
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9781910213445


Pages:   714
Publication Date:   06 September 2024
Format:   Paperback
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The Maias


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Awards

  • Winner of PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize 2008
  • Winner of The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2008

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Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante. He drifts along, becoming a doctor and pottering about in his laboratory, but spends more and more time riding his splendid horses or visiting the theater, having affairs or reading novels. His best friend and chief partner in crime, Ega, is likewise engaged in a long summertime of witticisms and pleasure. Carlos however is set on a dead reckoning course with fate—with the love of his life and with a terrible, terrible secret... Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa (translator of José Saramago's Blindness), New Directions is proud to bring Eça de Queirós' brilliant prose to life for American readers for the first time.

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Author:   Eca de Queiroz ,  Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher:   Dedalus Ltd
Imprint:   Dedalus Ltd
ISBN:  

9781910213445


ISBN 10:   1910213446
Pages:   714
Publication Date:   06 September 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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