The Yellow Sofa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811222181)

José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) "no digressions, no rhetoric," creating a book where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful 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 his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.

Author: José Maria de Eça de Queirós
ISBN-10: 0811222187
ISBN-13: 9780811222181
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2016
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.40d