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These brief and telling stories of rustic life and love are set in the remote and barren Tras-os-Montes - "over the mountains" - region of North East Portugal. The author speaks of the men and women living there, complex in emotion and thought, and elusive and thrifty with words.

This is the first English edition of the prize-winning writings of Portugal's premiere writer, who has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This autobiographical account recalls the author's childhood spent in the Tras-os-Montes province, and a boyhood of near servitude to his uncle in Brazil. Returning to Portugal, Torga qualified as a doctor, and practiced in his native village, where his "Tales" were also set.

This is the first English edition of the prize-winning writings of Portugal's premiere writer, who has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature.