The Yellow Sofa
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Jos? Maria E?a de Queir?s, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) "no digressions, no rhetoric," creating a book where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife "on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man." The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes E?a de Queir?s in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811222187
ISBN13:9780811222181
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.1" x 7.9"
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