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Grace Period

Grace Period

ISBN-13: 9781949641820

Contributor(s): Maria Judite de Carvalho (author), Margaret Jull Costa (translated by)

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: Two Lines Press

Publisher Imprint: Two Lines Press

Publication Date: 08-01-2026

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£13.99

About the book

Matea Silva is at a crossroads, but too paralyzed to change direction in a life that he no longer seems to control. After 25 years away, he 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. Mateo sells the home to the first bidder: his wealthy neighbor from childhood, whose wife, Graca, enchanted Mateo as a young man. It was Graca'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.