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‘[Mariana’s] letters, translated here by Vaz, are simple, strong arguments for the purity of love, and they seem to penetrate the human heart with startling directness... Mariana is most successful in its lyrical descriptions of ordinary lives transfigured, in its detailing of everyday routines and beliefs, and in its account of spiritual and emotional struggles... Vaz’s evocation of life in seventeenth-century Portugal glows with colour.’
E V Ormond, TLS

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In seventeenth-century Portugal, Mariana de Alcoforado, a nobleman's daughter and a nun since the age of ten, shocks the convent by having an affair with a French soldier, Captain Noel Bouton. When the scandal breaks, Bouton is immediately ordered back to France by his regiment. Mariana, devastated by her loss, writes extraordinarily beautiful and passionate letters to him in the hope that he will eventually return, letters to which she will never receive a reply.

Written in luscious prose by a writer with a wonderful eye for the unusual, 'Mariana' is based on the true story of one of Europe's most famous tales of seduction and abandonment, a tale which inspired artists from Matisse to Braque to try to capture the face of a woman of whom Stendhal said: ‘It is necessary to love like the Portuguese nun, with that ardent soul whose fiery mark is left for us in her letters.’

"(Mariana's) letters, translated here by Vaz, are simple, strong arguments for the purity of love, and they seem to penetrate the human heart with startling directness...Mariana's evocation of life in seventeenth-century Portugal glows with colour...and is most successful in its lyrical descriptions of ordinary lives transfigured, in its detailing of everyday routines and beliefs, and in its account of spiritual and emotional struggles."
E.V. ORMOND, 'TLS'

"Vaz has succeeded in the daunting task of blending an exquisitely beautiful love story with an insightful exploration of the sort of mysticism that springs from the combination of carnal experience and the forced absence of it within the walls of a cloister. To these elements is added a poetic and heartrending portrait of a woman. Seldom does one read pages of such intense beauty and intelligence about the female heart like those written by Vaz."
SIMONETTA BARTOLINI, 'Il Giornale'

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  • PublisherFlamingo
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0006550630
  • ISBN 13 9780006550631
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  • Number of pages320
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