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Salazar's fascist Portugal in 1938 is part of the menacing cloud that hangs over Europe and Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight, lonely, mostly retired journalist who doesn't want to think about it. He escapes facing the ominous times by translating nineteenth-century French stories for the weekly Culture Page he edits for a Lisbon newspaper.
He dwells on the past and over-indulges in heavily-sugared glasses of lemonade and omelettes aux fines berbes. "Are you living in another world, and you working for a newspaper?" his exasperated friend Father Antonio asks him. "Look here Pereira, for goodness sake go and find out what's happening around you.".
Then Pereira meets an appealing young man, Monteiro Rossi, and in a city where the very walls have ears and where those who know what's good for them turn a blind eye to what goes on around them, he is forced to break out of the shell of his own inhibitions. In the process of facing reality and encountering the brutality of an authoritarian state, Pereira becomes a gentle hero the reader will long remember.
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Pereira Declares: A Testimony
June 1997, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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0811213587 9780811213585
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Pereira Declares: A Testimony
May 1996, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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0811213196 9780811213196
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"Pereira declares he met him one summer's day."
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