by Lidia Jorge · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722022507
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«O Dia dos Prodígios» is the novel by Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge (paperback, 232 pages, in Portuguese).
An allegory of Portugal closed off by the dictatorship, the novel moves between the everyday and the symbolic; through characters and scenes of a village, it evokes the common past of Mediterranean women and the memory of a country beginning to awaken.
The first novel by Lídia Jorge, originally published in 1980 and winner of the Prémio Ricardo Malheiros. This edition dates from 1995.
For readers of Portuguese literature and historical fiction interested in collective memory and the feminine universe.
Lídia Jorge is a prominent Portuguese novelist and author whose work is representative of a recent style of Portuguese writing, the so-called "Post Revolution Generation".
