Alentejo blue : fiction

Author

Ali, Monica, 1967-

Title

Alentejo blue : fiction / Monica Ali.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Scribner, c2006.

Description

226 p. ; 25 cm.

Summary

This is the story of a village 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. 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 here; for her compatriots, a young engaged couple, this is where their dreams fall apart. The village awaits the homecoming of its prodigal son, now a symbol of the fast-changing world. When he finally returns, villagers, tourists, and expatriates are brought together, and their jealousies and disappointments inevitably collide.--From publisher description.

Kinsey subjects

Literature.

ISBN

0743293037

Standard Identifier

9780743293037