Happy People in Tears : A Novel
by João de Melo
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"This is perhaps the most important Portuguese Language novel written on the theme of Immigration. It follows the joys and pains, triumphs, and tragedies of an Azorean family's search for a better life in Canada and their changing relationship to the place of their birth and those left behind" --Tags
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una storia struggente di sdradicamento dall'isola natìa, di ricerca di una felicità che costa sofferenza. Non sono solo i personaggi a raccontare una vicenda, è l'isola stessa
Nov 15, 2010Italian
Verhaal van de leden van een boerenfamilie op de Portugeze Azoren, die hun eiland verlaten, ieder op weg naar een eigen bestemming. Opvoeding door een autoritaire vader, vervreemding binnen de familie.
Jan 16, 2010Dutch
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- Happy People in Tears : A Novel
- Original title
- Gente feliz com lágrimas
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 869.3 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Literatures of Portuguese and Galician languages Portuguese fiction
- LCC
- PQ9275 .E448 .G4613 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Portuguese literature Individual authors, 1961-2000
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- 5 — Dutch, English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
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