num_pages: 136
description: Lisbon, 1938. Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Portugal, until one day he meets an aspiring young writer and anti-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: Francesco Monteiro Rossi, Marta, Pereira
genres: Literature, Italy, Italian Literature, Novels, Historical, Fiction, Classics, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Portugal
ratings_count: 27773
places: Portugal, Lisbon
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