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- catalog abstract ""Everyone in Cape Verde knew Senhor da Silva Araujo. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senhor da Silva Araujo was the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never splurged - one good suit was good enough for him - and he never wandered from the straight and narrow." "Or so everyone thought." "But when his 387-page Last Will and Testament is read aloud - a marathon task on a hot afternoon which exhausts reader after reader - there is shocking news, and not just for the smug nephew so certain of inheriting all of Senhor da Silva Araujo's property." "In his will, Senhor da Silva Araujo has left a memoir that is a touching web of elaborate self-deceptions. He desired so ardently to prosper, to be taken seriously, and to join (perhaps, if they would have him) the exclusive Gremio country club. But most of all, he wanted to be a good man. And yet, shady deals, twists of fate, an illegitimate child: such is the lot of poor, self-critical Senhor da Silva Araujo. A bit like Calvino's Mr. Palomar in his attention to protocol and in his terror of life's passions; a bit like Svevo's Zeno (a little pompous, a little old-fashioned, and often hapless) Senhor da Silva Araujo moves along a deliciously blurry line between farce and tragedy: a self-important buffoon becomes a fully human, even tragic, figure in the arc of this novel."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Testamento do sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo. English".
- catalog contributor b13314095.
- catalog contributor b13314096.
- catalog contributor b13314097.
- catalog coverage "Cabo Verde Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Everyone in Cape Verde knew Senhor da Silva Araujo. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senhor da Silva Araujo was the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never splurged - one good suit was good enough for him - and he never wandered from the straight and narrow." "Or so everyone thought." "But when his 387-page Last Will and Testament is read aloud - a marathon task on a hot afternoon which exhausts reader after reader - there is shocking news, and not just for the smug nephew so certain of inheriting all of Senhor da Silva Araujo's property."".
- catalog description ""In his will, Senhor da Silva Araujo has left a memoir that is a touching web of elaborate self-deceptions. He desired so ardently to prosper, to be taken seriously, and to join (perhaps, if they would have him) the exclusive Gremio country club. But most of all, he wanted to be a good man. And yet, shady deals, twists of fate, an illegitimate child: such is the lot of poor, self-critical Senhor da Silva Araujo. A bit like Calvino's Mr.".
- catalog description "Palomar in his attention to protocol and in his terror of life's passions; a bit like Svevo's Zeno (a little pompous, a little old-fashioned, and often hapless) Senhor da Silva Araujo moves along a deliciously blurry line between farce and tragedy: a self-important buffoon becomes a fully human, even tragic, figure in the arc of this novel."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "152 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0811215652 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng por".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Directions,".
- catalog spatial "Cabo Verde Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog subject "869.3/42 2".
- catalog subject "PQ9942.9.A46 T4713 2004".
- catalog subject "Portuguese fiction 20th century Translations into English.".
- catalog title "Testamento do sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo. English".
- catalog title "The last will and testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo / Germano Almeida ; translated from the Portuguese by Sheila Faria Glaser.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".