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ISBN
9781933227641

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Tagus Press
ISBN-10
1933227648
ISBN-13
9781933227641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
207760124

Product Key Features

Book Title
Happy People in Tears : a Novel
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, General
Genre
Fiction
Author
João De Melo
Book Series
Portuguese in the Americas Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Preface by
Almeida, Onésimo T.
LCCN
2014-042365
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
869.3/42
Table Of Content
Preface, or a Short Introduction to an Unknown World-Onésimo T. Almeida Translating Diaspora: The Polyphonic Novel of João de Melo-Elizabeth Lowe Book One: The Time When We Were All Together Book Two: Third Person Singular Book Three: Mama's Last Breath Book Four: The Other Version of Marta Book Five: The Invisible Return Book Zero: Wise Happiness
Synopsis
An award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds - the island home of São Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada - experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean family of nine., Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds--the island home of São Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada--experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean family of nine. It is a polyphonic novel, in which the voices of three of seven siblings narrate their versions of the family saga in alternating chapters, culminating in a dialogue between the key narrator, Nuno Miguel, and his estranged wife, Marta, who tells the story from her point of view and sheds a harsh light on her husband, the poet, and his chronically tearful family. Nuno Miguel completes the circle of migration and suffering in the final chapter to return to his ancestral home, to greater self-awareness and a place of acceptance. It is a timely book that addresses the loss of the familiar, family separation and alienation, the anxiety of displacement, and alterity in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. The book also offers a fascinating vision of Portugal during the time of the Salazar dictatorship and its colonial wars in Africa, when the political collusion of church and state fomented a patriarchal society that became mirrored in the violence of the family ruled by an abusive father., Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds -- the island home of S o Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada -- experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean family of nine. It is a polyphonic novel, in which the voices of three of seven siblings narrate their versions of the family saga in alternating chapters, culminating in a dialogue between the key narrator, Nuno Miguel, and his estranged wife, Marta, who tells the story from her point of view and sheds a harsh light on her husband, the poet, and his chronically tearful family. Nuno Miguel completes the circle of migration and suffering in the final chapter to return to his ancestral home, to greater self-awareness and a place of acceptance. It is a timely book that addresses the loss of the familiar, family separation and alienation, the anxiety of displacement, and alterity in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. The book also offers a fascinating vision of Portugal during the time of the Salazar dictatorship and its colonial wars in Africa, when the political collusion of church and state fomented a patriarchal society that became mirrored in the violence of the family ruled by an abusive father.
LC Classification Number
PQ9275.E448G4613

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