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

Dust jacket

State of preservation

New

Binding

Softcover

Inscribed

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