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This is a first printing of the Dedalus new translation (by Margaret Jull Costa) of this novella which was originally published in Portuguese in 1966 and is now regarded as a classic of Portuguese literature. Unread. B format (130 x 198 mm) sized paperback.
SYNOPSIS: “A young gentleman is travelling on horseback, and stops by a river to rest and bathe. As he is lying there naked after bathing, three maidens appear and, trying to avert their gaze from the young man’s many charms, they tell him the story of their recently widowed mistress, who is dying of grief. She can only be saved by a man who fulfils three conditions: he must be the son of a king, a great physician, and a virgin. Since he more or less fulfils these conditions, the young man duly goes to the castle and saves the queen, who immediately falls in love with her saviour. But the maidens, the queen or the prodigious physician what they seem? In this novel, nothing is certain and nothing is ever entirely over…”
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