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The Yellow Sofa

Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote iThe Yellow Sofa/i with, as he said, "no digressions, no rhetoric," where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns Godofredo Alves, a successful, buoyant businessman who returns home to find his wife "on the yellow damask sofa...leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man..." The man is none other than Machado, his best friend and business partner. Godofredo struggles with the public need to defend his honor, and a stronger inner desire for forgiveness and domestic tranquility.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 128
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780811213394
  • Genres
  • portugal, classics, fiction, romance, novels, novella, literature, humor
  • Release date
  • 1996