ISBN: f547cb1418f36f65522e9e0b58c7ba1b

Alentejo Blue is the story of a village community in Portugal, told through the lives of men and women whose families have lived there for generations and some who are passing through. Fo… Mehr…

Alentejo Blue is the story of a village community in Portugal, told through the lives of men and women whose families have lived there for generations and some who are passing through. For Teresa, a beautiful girl not yet twenty, Mamarrosa is a place from which to escape. For the dysfunctional Potts family, it is a way of running from trouble (though not eluding it). Vasco, a café owner who has never recovered from the death of his American wife, clings to a notion that his years away from the village, in the States, make him superior. One English tourist fantasizes about making a new life in Mamarrosa; for her compatriots, a young engaged couple, Mamarrosa is where their dreams fall apart. At the opening of Alentejo Blue, an old man reflects on his long and troubled life in this seemingly tranquil place, and anticipates the homecoming of Marco Afonso Rodrigues, the prodigal son of the village and a symbol of the now fast-changing world. When Marco does finally return, villagers, tourists, and expatriates are brought together, and their jealousies and disappointments inevitably collide. Scribner Literature General Portugal; Mamarrosa; Granta; Booker; Man Booker Prize; immigrant fiction; Bangladesh; multicultural; book club; London; British Indian; literary fiction; short stories; summer reading; holiday; tourists; Lisbon; Brick Lane 9780743293044, AU,DE,ES,FR,GB,UK,IT,MX English Literature, Scribner<

2008, ISBN: f547cb1418f36f65522e9e0b58c7ba1b

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Transworld Digital, Kindle Edition, Auflage: New Ed, 308 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-12-26T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Verkaufsrang: 267373, Special Features, Books, Contemporary Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Subjects, Amazon Books Editors' Reading List, partition_000, partition_115, Special Features Stores, Litfic - Editors' pick article asins, partition_074, Literary, Kindle eBooks, Categories, Kindle Store, Family Life, Genre Fiction, Format: Kindle eBook, Transworld Digital, 2008<