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Alentejo Blue (Compact Disc)

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By Monica Ali, Anna Fields (Read by)
$27.95
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Description


Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time. Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a cafe owner who is losing business to the new internet cafe down the road. The unseemly dysfunctional but strangely riveting Pottses are a family of ex-patriots, trying to cobble a life together, at odds with one another until they run into trouble on the outside. We also meet several English tourists: a young couple engaged to be married and confronting each other's weaknesses and idiosyncrasies for the first time and an older woman imagining a new life and fantasizing about never returning home.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780786171347
ISBN-10: 0786171340
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Publication Date: June 20th, 2006
Pages: 7
Language: English