Title: Raised from the ground
Description: Contemporary fiction. Following the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents, this book charts the family's lives in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the republic in Portugal, and the First and Second World Wars.
Subjects: Families, Fiction, Social conditions, History, Fiction, general, Portugal, fiction
Places: Portugal, Alentejo, Alentejo (Portugal)
Time periods: 20th century, 1910-1974