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| | Amazon.com: Saudade: Books: Katherine Vaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | This wonderfully inventive novel, which contains elements of magic realism, is infused with a sense of saudade-a Portuguese word that, according to the author, can be understood as an extremely intense longing for a time, place, or people. |
 | | in Saudade, the reader may live in a world unlike ours, where anything imaginable is possible and beauty can be found in the simplist of everyday objects and actions. |
 | | Vaz conveys the novel's underlying themes of portuguese culture, revenge, love, identity, and truth using her unbelievable creativity that implements simple symbols to represent the most profound of human desires and emotions. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ISBN=0312144083/deafconnectionA (1278 words) |
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