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

Dust jacket

State of preservation

New

Binding

Softcover

Inscribed

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 .