{"product_id":"9781949641516","title":"So Many People, Mariana","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLong discounted by a literary culture that actively \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003erejected women’s writing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollecting the entirety of her short works written between 1959 and 1967, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhen the Salazar dictatorship and the rigid edicts of the Catholic church reigned, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe stories in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo Many People, Mariana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont face=\"MinionPro-Regular\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cfont face=\"MinionPro-Regular\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo Many People, Mariana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an introduction to a major international writer at the height of her power. 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” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maria Judite Carvalho","offers":[{"title":"Two Lines Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-10-20","offer_id":44230088032511,"sku":"9781949641516","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0597a1e0-e74c-444e-a26b-a629d72b117a.jpg?v=1693005232","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781949641516","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}