An edition of Happy people in tears
(2015)
Happy people in tears
a novel
by João de Melo
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"This is perhaps the most important Portuguese Language novel written on the theme of Immigration. It follows the joys and pains, triumphs, and tragedies of an Azorean family's search for a better life in Canada and their changing relationship to the place of their birth and those left behind" --
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Happy people in tears: a novel
2015, Tagus Press / UMass Dartmouth
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1933227648 9781933227641
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Table of Contents
Preface, or a short introduction to an unknown world / Onésimo T. Almeida
Translating diaspora: the polyphonic novel of João de Melo / Elizabeth Lowe
Book one: The time when we were all together
Book two: Third person singular
Book three: Mama's last breath
Book four: The other version of Marta
Book five: The invisible return
Book zero: Wise happiness.
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Originally published in Portuguese (Lisboa : Publicações Dom Quixote : Círculo de Leitores, 1988).
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