{"product_id":"eliete-a-normal-life-paperback","title":"Eliete: A Normal Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDulce Maria Cardoso\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award*\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliete is forty (-something)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliete has been married to Jorge for twenty years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliete has an average career as an average estate agent\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliete has a completely normal life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliete has reached breaking-point\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eliete is stuck in both a dead-end job, and a dead-end marriage. She's never had many grand dreams or ambitions, but now she is starting to wonder if life might have passed her by, and if it's too late to do anything about it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e So, Eliete decides to join Tinder. She sets up some fake dating profiles, and embarks on a number of liaisons with various men around suburban Lisbon. Will this ignite her marriage with the spark it so desperately needs? Unlikely. It is the summer of 2016: Jorge has become hooked on Pokémon Go!, there's football on the telly, he's got opinions on Brexit, and he remains completely oblivious to his wife's new exploits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And then, in the middle of all of this, Eliete's grandmother is diagnosed with dementia, and moves in with them. Alarmingly, her illness seems to have resurfaced some scandalous personal memories, and her unguarded outbursts threaten to reveal explosive, long-buried family secrets. Secrets that suddenly turn Eliete's perception of herself upside-down, as her seemingly normal life collapses around her . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-Quintana\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDulce Maria Cardoso is a Portuguese writer, who spent her childhood in Luanda, Angola after her parents moved there when she was an infant. Her family returned to Portugal following the Angolan War of Independence in 1975. She studied law at the University of Lisbon and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eCampo de Sangue, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Grand Prize Acontece de Romance, \u003ci\u003eVioleta among the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e won the EU Prize for Literature and \u003ci\u003eO Chão dos Pardais \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Portuguese Pen Club Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56558609039665,"sku":"9781529418811","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/T0bIrkOgrK9781529418811.webp?v=1790808670","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/eliete-a-normal-life-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}