when wolves howl de ribeiro aquilino (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First edition. Fine/poor The dust jacket has water damage to it. Two tears along top cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First American. Translated from the Portuguese by Patricia McGowan Pinheiro. Top cover corners and top edge of back cover bumped, else near fine in a very good lightly yellowed dust jacket with some tiny nicks and tears on edges.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : 24.95 G FICT - Ribei T1513. First Edition. FIRST American Edition. 1963. Collectible. Good hardbound book with dust jacket. Book is in overall good condition and shows some age-related foxing. Dust jacket has some chipping and slight tears. GOOD - Collectible. Standard-sized.

hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. First Edition. New York. 1963. Macmillan. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Tape-Repaired Dustjacket. Translated by Patricia McGowan Pinheiro. 288 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Abram Rudisill. keywords: Europe Portugal Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - One of Portugal's greatest living writers has written a story that will remind many readers of such literary landmarks as Silone's Bread and Wine and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Once again a writer has defied dictatorial authority to speak for the conscience of his country. Set in the mountains of modern Portugal, When the Wolves Howl tells of the struggle of impoverished villagers to maintain their ancestral rights to the land around them. Against them are arrayed the forces of a government determined to seize that land in order to carry out a program 'in this embodying its own idea of 'progress' case, a vast plan for deforestation. Only one man attempts to stave off the inevitable collisionManuel Louvadeus, recently arrived home after years as an immigrant in Brazil but the government will recognize no will but its own. The tractors arrive. villagers rise in rebellion, only to be crushed as the representatives of the government carry out their work of destruction with the prosaic brutality peculiar to bureaucrats. Among the first casualties is Manuel, sent to prison. With him departs the last hope of a humane solution. Left to lead the villagers is Manuel's father, hard-bitten and scorning com- promise, who sees himself as a wolf among wolves. It is he who brings this tragic saga to a close with an act of flaming destruction that snatches the prize from victors and vanquished alike. With superb narrative skill, Aquilino Ribeiro dramatizes the conflict between liberty and authority that is taking place everywhere in the modern world. Introduced for the first time to an American audience, this master storyteller will interest those readers who are concerned with the plight of man in our era, confronted as never before with the blind impersonal forces of the state. AQUILINO RIBEIRO, author, at seventy-five, of many novels and critical works, Aquilino Ribeiro lives in the mountains in which he was born. He was the first winner of Portugal's most important literary award, the Ricardo Malheiro Prize, and is Portugal's only candidate for the Nobel Prize. Already twice exiled from Portugal because of his outspokenly democratic views, the publication of When the Wolves Howl earned him a new government trial, and the admiration and sympathy of men of letters throughout the world. inventory #10519 Very Good in Tape-Repaired Dustjacket.

First American edn. Translated from the Portuguese by Patricia Pinheiro. Little scuffed at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy in chipped dj. A novel.