by Gonçalo M. Tavares · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720042903
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«Matteo Perdeu o Emprego» is the novel by Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares, published by Porto Editora in 2010 in paperback, with 209 pages.
Matteo, after losing his job, answers a job advertisement; a woman receives him with a strange peculiarity. He accepts the position, but soon abandons it and tries another advertisement, where the same oddity repeats. The episodes follow one another like dominoes until returning to Matteo.
First edition; text in Portuguese. In 2014 it was nominated for the Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Portuguese fiction and stories with an episodic structure.
Gonçalo Manuel de Albuquerque Tavares, known professionally as Gonçalo M. Tavares, was born in August, 1970 in Luanda, Angola and is a Portuguese writer and professor of Theory of Science in Lisbon. He published his first work in 2001 and since then has been awarded several prizes. His books have been published in more than 30 countries and the book Jerusalém has been included in the European edition of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die.
