Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante. He drifts along, becoming a doctor and pottering about in his laboratory, but spends more and more time riding his splendid horses or visiting the theater, having affairs or reading novels. His best friend and chief partner in crime, Ega, is likewise engaged in a long summertime of witticisms and pleasure. Carlos however is set on a dead reckoning course with fate-with the love of his life and with a terrible, terrible secret. Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa (translator of Jos� Saramago's Blindness), New Directions is proud to bring E�a de Queir�s' brilliant prose to life for American readers for the first time.

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Titre: The Maias
�diteur: New Directions Publishing Corporation, US
Date de parution: 2007
Langue: anglais
ISBN � 10 chiffres: 0811216497
ISBN � 13 chiffres: 9780811216494
Reliure: Paperback
�tat de l'article: New
Poids: 709�grammes

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Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante. He drifts along, becoming a doctor and pottering about in his laboratory, but spends more and more time riding his splendid horses or visiting the theater, having affairs or reading novels. His best friend and chief partner in crime, Ega, is likewise engaged in a long summertime of witticisms and pleasure. Carlos however is set on a dead reckoning course with fate--with the love of his life and with a terrible, terrible secret...

Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa (translator of Jos� Saramago's Blindness), New Directions is proud to bring E�a de Queir�s' brilliant prose to life for American readers for the first time.

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One of the leading intellectuals of the "Generation of 1870," Jos� Maria de E�a de Queir�s (1845-1900) wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris.

Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Mar�as and Jos� Saramago, lives in England.

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