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Miguel Torga, a Portuguese author twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, gives fair warning that he is setting a grim table for us with these tales of rural Portugal of the early 1900's. Yu Fontovi Latinica. In his preface he tells us we will meet the 'dismally weathered sadness contained among these cliffs' and warns us of 'so much dirt and misery.' The area is the poor, rural Tras-os-Montes region of northern Portugal (literally 'behind the mountains'). If you persist, you will encounter twenty-two shor Miguel Torga, a Portuguese author twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, gives fair warning that he is setting a grim table for us with these tales of rural Portugal of the early 1900's. In his preface he tells us we will meet the 'dismally weathered sadness contained among these cliffs' and warns us of 'so much dirt and misery.' The area is the poor, rural Tras-os-Montes region of northern Portugal (literally 'behind the mountains').

If you persist, you will encounter twenty-two short tales; an average of six pages each. In one tale, a man discovers he is a leper and is banished from his village; in another a thief robs a church and discovers the priest did his dirty work before him; a woman is killed by the work of a voodoo doll. In other stories a prostitute gets so little assistance from men that she comes to believe her children have no fathers; a young boy gets his first Christmas present along with the news of his father's death; an elderly gravedigger prepares his own grave with the thought 'This is the end of my bad luck.' But there is a harsh beauty in these stories too: a lame shepherd wins fame by beating a wolf to death; a priest steps out of his role and delivers a baby; two men set out hunting knowing one will not return, but they set aside their differences. Like the landscape they are set in, these are harsh, sparse stories. And, just as there is a beauty in that un-giving and unforgiving landscape, there is a simple, elemental beauty in these stories.

Yet I'm still glad my grandmother left this region at about the time of the setting of these stories and came to the United States -- all by herself at age 16! What courage! Top photo from tourism-culture-society.blogspot.com middle photo of Montesinho Village from portugalgreenwalks.com photo of the author from leme.pt. Miguel Torga tells us all about rural Portugal with passion and humour. Stories that show you that rural Portugal is not devoid of love, hope, charity, passion, things that make up a human being. The stories are small in length, but so full, which goes to show that only an excellent writer like Torga could encapsulate so much is so little! In 'Maria Lionsa' we are shown the fortitude of a woman who lives life with great dignity and respect even after losing her husband and her only son, in whom s Miguel Torga tells us all about rural Portugal with passion and humour.