A Cidade e as Serras

Three generations of a wealthy family come apart in Lisbon while the city talks about everything except what matters. The novel most often named the finest ever written in Portuguese.

Eça de Queirós

Luísa is bored, her cousin returns from Paris, and a servant sees everything. Eça turned a domestic affair into a case against the whole Lisbon middle class.

Eça de Queirós

A nephew fakes piety to secure an inheritance and travels to Jerusalem to prove it. A comic novel about hypocrisy that keeps its best joke for the last page.

Eça de Queirós

Simão and Teresa love each other across a family feud that will not bend, and neither will they. Camilo wrote it in fifteen days while in prison, which shows in every page.

Camilo Castelo Branco

Marta is pushed toward a rich returning emigrant while her heart stays with a poor man. Camilo's late novel of the Minho countryside, dark and unsentimental.

Camilo Castelo Branco