Dark Stones

von Dias de Melo

162 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Bringing to life his countrymen's daily struggles with the sea, struggles carried out against the dark-stoned background of their homeland, novelist Dias de Melo tells the collective story of Azorean seamen at a moment of great change toward the end of the nineteenth century. Confronted with increasing economic hardship and social and political tensions, whalers faced the choice of continuing to eke out a living at home or forsaking their boats for the shores of America.   This expanded Tagus Press edition features Gregory McNab's masterful 1988 translation of Dark Stones and a new introduction from Maria JoÃo Dodman. As an insider from the island of Pico, Dias de Melo writes in a realistic style that is passionate and forceful, yet tenacious, without ever losing certainty and control.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9781951470067
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2022
• Größe: 214 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Tagus Press
• Übersetzung: Gregory McNab