num_pages: 136
description: Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweightjournalist who has failed to noticethe menacing cloud of fascism overSalazarist Portugal, until one day hemeets an aspiring young writer andanti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism.
language: English
title: Pereira Declares: A Testimony
titlecomplete: Pereira Declares: A Testimony
characters: Pereira, Marta, Francesco Monteiro Rossi
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, Portugal, Historical, Italy, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, Fiction
ratings_count: 27745
places: Lisbon, Portugal
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Premio Campiello, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne du département de Charente, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Aristeion Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci
publisher: New Directions