The Maias

by Eca de Queiros, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

Overview

'The greatest book by Portugal's greatest novelist.' Saramago

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907650338
Publisher:	Dedalus Press, The
Publication date:	03/31/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	714
Sales rank:	441,653
File size:	728 KB

About the Author

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.

For her translations of Spanish and Portuguese, Margaret Jull Costa has won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize four times as well as the Premio Valle-Inclán, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the 2008 PEN Prize for best translation from any language for The Maias, by Eça de Queirós (New Directions, 2007).

Editorial Reviews

"The Maias is a very satisfying juxtaposition of the beautiful, lyrical landscape and the vile actions of the family."

Edmund White