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Oliveira, Alamo [Josè Henrique ¡Lamo Oliveira]

Ja nao gosto de chocolates = I don't like chocolates anymore

Edic?o~es Salamandra, 1999

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Year of publication
1999
ISBN
9726891450
Place of printing
Lisbon
Author
Oliveira, Alamo [Josè Henrique ¡Lamo Oliveira]
Publishers
Edic?o~es Salamandra
Keyword
FITION BOOKS IN PORTUGUESE AZORES IMMIGRANTS usa
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

[Coleccao Garajau] "I No Longer Like Chocolates is the story of every Azorean family's journey from the Old World to the new promised land, America. With heartbreaking candor, ¡lamo Oliveira retells Joe Sylvia's story through memory as he sits in his wheelchair in a nursing home where his children visit, dutifully, yet less and less while he reminisces and tries to make sense of a life that started with the dream of anticipating the taste of American chocolates, and ending up with him no longer liking them. The symbolism is not lost on the reader: the dream is sweet; the reality bitter. There is much that can be said about each of the characters in the noveL"

Edizione: 1st portuguese edition