Fado and Other Stories

by Katherine Vaz

Book Overview

Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize This collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back the land the church took from her family; in another, relatives in the Azores fight over a plot of land owned by their expatriate American cousin. Even apparently small images are cast in terms of the earth:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822940515
• ISBN13: 9780822940517
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 9.3"