The day of miracles

The Day of Miracles (orig .: O Dia dos Prodígios ) is the first novel by the Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge . It was published in 1979 and has become a major work in modern Portuguese literature.

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The story is set in the fictional village of Vilamaninhos, a backward, impoverished village in southern Portugal where time seems to have stood still. When a snake flies away in front of the residents, a new era seems to dawn. In Lisbon, the Carnation Revolution overthrew the Estado Novo regime and soon the revolutionaries were also coming to Vilamaninhos.

publication

The novel was published in 1979 by Publicações Europa-América in Portuguese. In 1989 Beck and Glückler published a German-language edition in a translation by Maralde Meyer-Minnemann , followed three years later by the paperback edition by Suhrkamp .

Adaptation

Cucha Carvalheiro staged an adaptation of the novel in 2010 at the Teatro da Trindade in Lisbon.

Web links

• O Dia dos Prodígios on the website of Lídia Jorge (Portuguese)