My World Is Not of This Kingdom - Softcover

Melo, Joao De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097076524X ISBN 13: 9780970765246

Publisher: Aliform Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Cadete the Healer and Sara the Saint; Barbaro the Pilgrim and the syphilitic priest, His Holiness Father Governo; the death and resurrection of Joao-Lazaro...all on the island in the middle of the ocean...

About this title

About the Author:

Joao de Melo was in the Azores in 1949. He has written over 20 books, including the novels Gente Feliz com Lagrimas, Autopsia de Um Mar de Ruinas and the short story collections Entre Passaro e Anjo and Bem Aventurancas.

Gregory Rabassa has been called by The New York Times "one of the best translators who ever drew a breath." His translations include One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar, and Jail by Jesus Zarate.

Review:

A boiling, shocking story, a baroque impasto...Language is applied with a palette knife, not a thin brush. -- Revista (Harvard Univeristy), Winter 2003

An insular society in a brutal but pristine, fantastical setting, soon to be destroyed by politics and greed... -- Ruminator Review, Winter 2003

This is a boiling, shocking story...I cannot name another novel in which a howl is more ferociously unleashed. -- Katherine Vaz, from the Introduction to My World Is Not of This Kingdom

About this edition

• Publisher: Aliform Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 097076524X
• ISBN 13: 9780970765246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 251