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Happy people in tears : a novel / João de Melo ; preface by Onésimo T. Almeida ; translated by Elizabeth Lowe with Deolinda Adão.
- Title
- Happy people in tears : a novel / João de Melo ; preface by Onésimo T. Almeida ; translated by Elizabeth Lowe with Deolinda Adão.
- Author
- Melo, João de.
- Publication
- Dartmouth, Massachussetts : Tagus Press, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ9275.E448 G4613 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 375 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This is perhaps the most important Portuguese Language novel written on the theme of Immigration. It follows the joys and pains, triumphs, and tragedies of an Azorean family's search for a better life in Canada and their changing relationship to the place of their birth and those left behind" --
- Series Statement
- Portuguese in the Americas series ; 23
- Uniform Title
- Gente feliz com lágrimas. English
- Portuguese in the Americas series ; 23.
- Alternative Title
- Gente feliz com lágrimas.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction
- Note
- Originally published in Portuguese (Lisboa : Publicações Dom Quixote : Círculo de Leitores, 1988).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781933227641
- 1933227648
- LCCN
- ^^2014042365
- OCLC
- 895256432
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library