by Dias de Melo
translated by Gregory McNab
introduction by Maria João Dodman
Tagus Press, 2021
Paper: 978-1-951470-06-7 | eISBN: 978-1-951470-15-9
Library of Congress Classification PQ9275.E442P4313 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 869.342

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Bringing to life his countrymen’s daily struggles with the sea, struggles carried out against the dark-stoned background of their homeland, novelist Dias de Melo tells the collective story of Azorean seamen at a moment of great change toward the end of the nineteenth century. Confronted with increasing economic hardship and social and political tensions, whalers faced the choice of continuing to eke out a living at home or forsaking their boats for the shores of America. 

This expanded Tagus Press edition features Gregory McNab’s masterful 1988 translation of Dark Stones and a new introduction from Maria João Dodman. As an insider from the island of Pico, Dias de Melo writes in a realistic style that is passionate and forceful, yet tenacious, without ever losing certainty and control.

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