The Yellow Sofa

by Eça de Queirós

Book Overview

Jos? Maria E?a de Queir?s, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) "no digressions, no rhetoric," creating a book where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife "on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man." The man...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811222187
• ISBN13: 9780811222181
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.9"