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The Spies

The Spies

by Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Luís Fernando Veríssimo (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

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Synopsis

A frustrated publisher receives a mysterious angst-ridden manuscript: 'a friend' must send it in installments; its contents would put the author in danger. As he pieces together the story, he learns that the author is the wife of one of the two Martelli brothers - gangsters who dominate a small town in the Brazilian interior. Surely her dark outpourings are a cry for help? One by one, he dispatches his motley collection of friends to Frondosa - a town totally obsessed with five-a-side football - to investigate and to bring her to safety.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 07 Nov 2013
ISBN 10: 0857051148
ISBN 13: 9780857051141

Media Reviews
'An unsual elegance and lightness of touch, as well as a lingering underlying melancholy. It's nicely written too - the translation is as smooth as silk' Andrew Taylor, Spectator. * Spectator *
'At barely 200 pages, and with a note-perfect translation from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa, The Spies shares with a cryptic crossword the virtue of succinctness, not a word or scene wasted' Hannah Rosefield, Observer. * Observer *
Author Bio

Luis Fernando Verissimo is a satirist, cartoonist, translator, television writer, saxophonist, playwright and novelist. With over sixty published titles, he is one of the most popular of contemporary Brazilian writers.

Margaret Jull Costa is the award-winning translator of Jose Saramago, Javier Marias, Bernardo Atxaga, Eca de Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa.