La reliquia (1887) es el relato del viaje realizado a Egipto y Tierra Santa por Teodorico Raposo, quien marcha en peregrinaje a la búsqueda de una reliquia como favor hacia su riquísima y beata tía Patrocínio...

'The greatest book by Portugal's greatest novelist.' Saramago

Cousin Bazilio - A tale of sexual folly and hypocrisy set in 19th c Lisbon

Father Amaro sours for ever the life of the young Amelia   Set in Leira, Portugal in the 1870s, follows the love affair of young Father Amaro with nubile Am elia, and their interactions with...

The Mandarin is a satire on avarice published with the stories' Jose Matia's, 'The Idiosyncrasies of a Young Blonde Woman' and ' The Hanged Man'.