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China is nextdoor

A China fica ao lado

Information

Title(s):

A China fica ao lado (pt)

Author(s):

Maria Ondina Braga

Languages available:

Portuguese

Edition(s):

Panorama, 1968
Bertrand, 1974
Editores Associados, 1976
Instituto Cultural de Macau, 1991

Genre(s):

Short-stories

A window into...

20th century
Chinese people
Chinese culture
Festivities
Liverlihoods
Opium
Women

Preview

Stories and portraits of women and the chinese community of Macau.

Plot

Four centuries after Fernão Mendes Pinto, a female writer with a singular voice discovers the millenary China - its wisdom, its traditions, its myths. She is in a place of convergence, Macau, and there, her humanity and tenderness, her rare understanding of the problems of others, lead her to understand and describe, for us, an extraordinary gallery - old women with tied feet, doctors with shady practices, sellers of exotic products, soothsayers, refugees, aimless women - figures between the real and the dream, restless, tragic, unforgettable. Independent and lucid, Maria Ondina Braga is, in fact, at the forefront of our new prose writers, thanks also to the quality of a streamlined language that is attentive to the most recent experiences of a moving semantics. Then, the certainty with which she organizes the internal economy of her stories, the simplicity with which she tells them, the skillful painting of environments and characters, all of this makes reading an extremely original work - China is nextdoor. An open window on the east.






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