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Julia S.BEAUTIFULLY AUSTERE, ELEGANT novel about love and memory and the impossibility of recapturing the past rings with echoes of 20th-century Portugal. Stunning translation sets off a real gem for English-language readers. A MINUS
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Grace Period
Matea Silva is at a crossroads, but too paralyzed to change direction in a life that he no longer seems to control. After 25 years away, he has returned to sell his childhood home so he can send his longtime girlfriend—whom he now realizes he may have never loved—on a trip to the Acropolis before her cancer kills her. Mateo sells the home to the first bidder: his wealthy neighbor from childhood, whose wife, Graça, enchanted Mateo as a young man. It was Graça’s beauty, paired with his father’s unfaithfulness, that broke up his family. But the woman he sees now bears little resemblance to the one he remembers, and you can’t move forward by revisiting the past.
Shantell Powell
Of Bookish Things
