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Also by Maria Judite de Carvalho:

So Many People, Mariana, October 2023
Hardcover

Also by Margaret Jull Costa:

So Many People, Mariana, October 2023
Hardcover
Borges And The Eternal Orangutans, June 2005
Paperback

So Many People, Mariana
Maria Judite de Carvalho, Margaret Jull Costa

Two Lines Press
October 2023
On Sale: October 10, 2023
450 pages
ISBN: 1949641511
EAN: 9781949641516
Hardcover
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Novella / Short Story

Long discounted by a literary culture that actively rejected women’s writing, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. Collecting the entirety of her short works written between 1959 and 1967, when the Salazar dictatorship and the rigid edicts of the Catholic church reigned, the stories in So Many People, Mariana might as well have been written today. These are tough, unflinching accounts of women trapped by a culture that values them as workers or wives but not as people. And if they do escape their circumstances, they are, more often than not, irrevocably punished by the world. 

So Many People, Mariana is an introduction to a major international writer at the height of her power. Translated by the renowned Margaret Jull Costa, Carvalho leads readers into the dark of life under patriarchal capitalism, writing “as precisely and without sentiment as an autopsy” (New York Review of Books).

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