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Melo, Joao De
My World Is Not of This Kingdom
Aliform Publishing, 2003
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Year of publication
2003
ISBN
097076524X
Place of printing
Minneapolis MN
Author
Melo, Joao De
Publishers
Aliform Publishing
Edition
1st UK Edition.
Keyword
PORTIGUESE WRITERS FICTION AZORES
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes
Description
Translation into English of "O meu mundo na~o e? deste reino" by Gregory Rabasso "World Is Not of This Kingdom.consists of a parodic rewriting of Genesis and the history of civilization, based on the history of the parish of Nossa Senhora do Ros·rio da Achadinha, a town in the Azores.its central theme is "death, the numerous and distressing death of a people with their rats and spiders; the proof of the great cry of the animals and the white sea of ?Cadete, the procurator; the chronic syphilis of his holiness, Father Governo, passing through the story of Sara, the saint [.] - up to the episodes of the life, death and resurrection of Jo„o-L·zaro, first a beggar and, later, a prophet of the Bible in the Azores" 248p .
