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This novel is based upon the true story of Mariana Alcoforado, sent to a convent during Portugal's revolt against Spain in the seventeenth century, where she conducts an all-consuming love affair with a French cavalry officer. After being abandoned, she writes him a series of passionate love letters--translated and included here--that become famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, and thereafter. Artists from the poet Rilke and the novelist Stendhal to the painters Matisse and Modigliani have made her one of the world's great romantic icons.
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Katherine Vaz is the author of the novels Saudade and Mariana, and the collection of short stories Fado & Other Stories. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary reviews and her stories for children in several anthologies. Vaz is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the Library of Congress. She is currently a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard University.
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Dialogue and descriptions that transport us to the turbulent Portugal of the seventeenth century. -- Activa (Portugal)
Mariana glows with colour...in its lyrical description of ordinary lives transfigured and its account of spiritual and emotional struggles. -- The Times Literary Supplement (London)
Mariana glows with colour...in its lyrical description of ordinary lives transfigured and its account of spiritual and emotional struggles. -- The Times Literary Supplement (London)
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0006550630
- ISBN 13 9780006550631
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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