Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time. Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a cafe owner who is losing business to the new internet cafe down the road. The unseemly dysfunctional but strangely riveting Pottses are a family of ex-patriots, trying to cobble a life together, at odds with ...
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Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time. Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a cafe owner who is losing business to the new internet cafe down the road. The unseemly dysfunctional but strangely riveting Pottses are a family of ex-patriots, trying to cobble a life together, at odds with one another until they run into trouble on the outside. We also meet several English tourists: a young couple engaged to be married and confronting each other's weaknesses and idiosyncrasies for the first time and an older woman imagining a new life and fantasizing about never returning home.
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Add this copy of Alentejo Blue: Fiction to cart. $6.88, good condition, Sold by The Yard Sale Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Narrowsburg, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Blackstone Audio Inc.
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Good. 7 WORTHWHILE and INDIVIDUALLY POLISHED AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection. In the clamshell case with library marking to the box and the CDs. Each CD is in an individual slot, protected and clear sounding. Enjoy this unabridged Audio CD performance.
Add this copy of Alentejo Blue: Fiction to cart. $9.93, good condition, Sold by The Yard Sale Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Narrowsburg, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Blackstone Audio Inc.
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Good. 7 AUDIO CDs, WORTHWHILE and INDIVIDUALLY POLISHED, withdrawn from the library collection. In the clamshell case with some library marking to the box and the CDs. Each CD is in an individual slot, protected and clear sounding. Enjoy this Audio CD performance.
Add this copy of Alentejo Blue: Fiction to cart. $9.99, new condition, Sold by The Yard Sale Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Narrowsburg, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Blackstone Audio Inc.
Add this copy of Alentejo Blue to cart. $24.27, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
