Book description
Father Amaro sours for ever the life of the young Amelia
Set in Leira, Portugal in the 1870s, follows the love affair of
young Father Amaro with nubile Am elia, and their interactions with Am
elia's mother, her atheist suitor, and her mother's lover, the priest
Canon Dias.
Eca(1845-1900) Margaret Jull Costa's translations have won many
prizes, including The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Pen
Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize for The Maias
