José Maria de Eça de Queirós

The City and the Mountains

Buch

Born in Paris, Jacinto is the heir to a vast estate in Portugal which he has never visited. He mixes with the creme de la creme of Paris society, but is monumentally bored. And then he receives a letter from his estate manager saying that they plan to move the bones of his ancestors to the newly renovated chapel-would he like to be there? With great trepidation, Jacinto sets off with his best friend, the narrator, on the mammoth train journey through France and Spain to Portugal. What they discover in the simple country life will upend their own lives deliciously....Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa, New Directi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Costa, Margaret Jull (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1701-9
EAN: 9780811217019
Produktnummer: 3784062
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 282 S.
Masse: H21.7 cm x B17.0 cm x D1.9 cm 304 g
Gewicht: 304

Über den Autor

One of the leading intellectuals of the Generation of 1870, José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris.