The City and the Mountains

Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900)is considered to be Portugal's greatest novelist. Dedalus has embarked on a project of making all his major works available in English in new translations by Margaret Jull Costa.
The Mandarin, The Relic, The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers, The Crime of Father Amaro, Cousin Bazilio, The Maias and The City and the Mountains, Alves & Co have so far been published.
Dedalus will publish the mystery of the Sintra Road in 2013.

MARGARET JULL COSTA has been a translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature since 1987. Among the other authors she has translated are Paulo Coelho, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, Bernardo Atxaga and Javier Marías. Her work has brought her various awards, the most recent being the 2008 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Award and the 2008 Oxford Weidenfeld Prize for her translation of Eça de Queiroz’s masterpiece The Maias.