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Eliete : a normal life

Cardoso, Dulce Maria, 1964-2024
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Eliete is a normal woman in her early forties, born just after the Carnation Revolution. There is hardly anything extraordinary about her life, and yet she enthralls us with her desire to live, and to understand people and things. Her daughters are mostly on the internet and abroad; her husband is easier to meet on Facebook than at home. Who cares if Eliete, who feels strongly that her youth is gone, allows herself to experiment on Tinder? She would prefer to reignite her relationship with her husband, but he doesn't seem interested. Eliete stays cool and doesn't despair. Then suddenly she finds someone and something different - an inkling of love? Is Duarte a real-life version of one of the heroes in the teenage magazines of her childhood? And what on earth does it mean when her dementia-suffering grandmother says that Portugal's former dictator is part of their family story?
Main title:
Eliete : a normal life / Dulce Maria Cardoso ; translated by Angel Gurria-Quintana.
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2024.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.
ISBN:
9781529418811 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
Added title:
BRN:
2691072
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