Alves & Co.

Author: Eça de Queiroz

Translator: Margaret Jull Costa   Cover design: Marie Lane  

Reviews

'Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900) probably best known for The Maias, a powerful portrait of society in decline, occupies the same place in Portuguese literature as Dickens does in English, Balzac in French and Tolstoy in Russian. Dedalus, which has done more than any publisher to bring Eca's work to the attention of the English-speaking world, continues the project with Alves & Co, also known as The Yellow Sofa, a comic novella about infidelity discovered in a trunk after the author's death, and half a dozen short stories published in his lifetime, all rendered into English in a new translation by Margaret Jull Costa.'

Keith Richmond in Tribune