Bøger af Margaret Jull Costa

The Book of Disquiet - The Complete Edition, authored by the renowned Fernando Pessoa, is a captivating journey into the depths of the human psyche. Published in the year 1900, this book is a timeless piece that transcends the boundaries of years and cultures. The genre of this book is hard to pin down, with elements of existentialism, fiction, and philosophy interwoven in a unique tapestry of thought and emotion. Pessoa's unique voice resonates throughout the pages, making this book a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the human condition. This complete edition is brought to you by the dedicated team at the publisher, who have worked tirelessly to preserve and present Pessoa's work in its full, unadulterated form. The Book of Disquiet - The Complete Edition is available in English, making it accessible to a wide range of readers.

From the winner of the prestigious FIL Prize in Romance Languages comes this masterpiece saga of two clashing families in coastal Portugal

The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many Eça de Queirós aficionados. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonçalo-charming but disastrously effete, idealistic but hopelessly weak-muddles through his pampered life, burdened by a grand ambition. He is determined to write a great historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his fierce medieval ancestors.  But "the record of their valor," as The London Spectator remarked, "is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, Ramires is continually humiliated but at the same time kindhearted. Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel. Eça de Queirós has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal."

Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías's three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed "exquisite" (Publishers Weekly), "gorgeous" (Kirkus), and "outstanding: another work of urgent originality" (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza-hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception-back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.