If only we were transparent
Alexandra Reza: Lídia Jorge, 18 May 2023
The Wind Whistling in the Cranes
by Lídia Jorge, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott.
Liveright, 511 pp., £19.99, March 2022,978 1 63149 759 9 Show More
by Lídia Jorge, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott.
Liveright, 511 pp., £19.99, March 2022,
“... For a long time it ‘resembled little more than a vast construction site’. In 1998, the year Lídia Jorge completed The Wind Whistling in the Cranes, the city hosted Expo ’98, which brought in eleven million visitors (Portugal’s population at the time was ten million). The novel, published in Portuguese in 2002 and now translated by Margaret ... ”
