Why a Booktrail?
1959 and 1967: Collecting the entirety of Maria Judite de Carvalho’s short works written during this time
So Many People, Mariana
What you need to know before your trail
Collecting the entirety of her short works written between 1959 and 1967, when the Salazar dictatorship and the rigid edicts of the Catholic church reigned, the stories in So Many People, Mariana might as well have been written today. These are tough, unflinching accounts of women trapped by a culture that values them as workers or wives but not as people. And if they do escape their circumstances, they are, more often than not, irrevocably punished by the world.
Locations
Reset- Portugal - Lisbon
- A: Baixa-Chiado
- B: Rua das Pretas
- C: Largo de Andaluz
- Portugal - Gouveia
- D: Gouveia
Travel Guide
Portugal
Translated by the renowned Margaret Jull Costa, Carvalho leads readers into the dark of life under patriarchal capitalism, writing “as precisely and without sentiment as an autopsy”
Much of the book is set in Lisbon but these stories take us around Portugal in terms of culture, age and history.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: So Many People, Mariana
Destination/Location: Portugal, Lisbon Author: Maria Judite de Carvalho Departure: 1959 and 1967
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