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“... million). The novel, published in Portuguese in 2002 and now translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott, captures that period of change, the ‘feeling of danger when the wind’s whistling in the cranes’. The action takes place in Valmares, a fictional village on the Algarve coast, and begins in August 1994, when 30-year-old Milene Leandro ...”

“... the ‘free narrative act’ that is the novel’s hidden aim.This elegant translation by Annie McDermott is the first English version of Levrero’s work. Even in Spanish, he has a reputation as one of the raros – a writer at once celebrated and occluded. I first heard of him from Alejandro Zambra, the Chilean novelist, who especially admires ...”