{"product_id":"grace-period-maria-judite-de-carvalho-9781949641820","title":"Grace Period","description":"\u003cb\u003eAfter 25 years away, Mateo Silva has returned to sell his childhood home so he can send his longtime girlfriend--whom he now realizes he may have never loved--on a trip to the Acropolis before her cancer kills her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mateo sells the home to the first bidder: his wealthy neighbor from childhood, whose wife Graça enchanted Mateo as a young man. It was Graça's beauty, paired with his father's unfaithfulness, that broke up his family. But the woman he sees now bears little resemblance to the one he remembers, and you can't move forward by revisiting the past.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn searing prose, keenly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, the Portuguese master Maria Judite de Carvalho's narrator is at a crossroads, but too paralyzed to change direction in the life that he no longer seems to control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Judite de Carvalho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949641821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949641820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Lines Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Maria Judite de Carvalho","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46907007992063,"sku":"9781949641820","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_466545e9-87f6-4f0e-8445-7398f20c4832.jpg?v=1748772038","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grace-period-maria-judite-de-carvalho-9781949641820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}