Mariana (Vaz novel)

Mariana

Author	Katherine Vaz
Country	United States
Language	English
Publication date	1997

Mariana is the 1997 second novel of Katherine Vaz, originally written in English, published by Flamingo/HarperCollin. The novel was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998.^[1] The novel has been translated into more than six languages including Portuguese, Italian, and Greek.^[2][3]

Plot

The plot retells the seventeenth-century romance between Mariana Alcoforado, a nun at the Convent of Beja, and an officer in the French army.^[4]

References

1. http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/katherine-vaz
2. Clara Sarmento Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire 2009 1443807141 p.119 "The historical romance Mariana, written in English by the North American Katherine Vaz, and published in Portuguese in 1997, has peculiar characteristics that confirm the importance of the cultural heritage left by Mariana Alcoforado."
3. Delaware Review of Latin American Studies "Mariana's evocation of life in seventeenth-century Portugal glows with colour. and is most successful in its lyrical descriptions of ordinary lives transfigured,"
4. Reinaldo Francisco Silva Portuguese American Literature 2009 1847601073 Page 52 "This is also extensible to Katherine Vaz in Saudade and Fado & Other Stories, whereas in Mariana (1997) she focuses on a classical Portuguese love story between a seventeenth-century nun in the convent of Beja and a French officer."