num_pages: 304
description: A new collection of short stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal features a range of colorful characters, linked by a vivid sense of place and time, including Teresa, a beautiful young girl from the village engaged to a suitable man, who yearns to see the world, and Vasco, a caf‚ owner who is losing business to the new Internet caf‚ down the road. By the author of Brick Lane. 75,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Alentejo Blue
titlecomplete: Alentejo Blue
genres: Short Stories, Portugal, Female Authors, Literary Fiction, Novels, Travel, Adolescence, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1211
publisher: Scribner