The Maias » (Reprint)

One of the leading intellectuals of the "Generation of 1870," José Maria de Eça de Queirós
(1845-1900) wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris.

Margaret Jull Costa won both the 2008 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize and the 2008 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Eca de Queiros’s The Maias. She is also the translator of the work of Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, António

Lobo Antunes, and Javier Marías.

Set in Lisbon at the close of the nineteenth century, The Maias is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance.