At the start of
The Translator's Bride, the Translator's bride has left him. But if he can only find a way to buy a small house, maybe he can win her back . . . These are the obsessive thoughts that pervade the Translator's mind as he walks around an unnamed city in 1920, trying to figure out how to put his life back together. His employers aren't paying him, he's trying to survive a woman's unwanted advances, and he's trying to make the best of his desperate living conditions. All while he struggles with his own mind and angry and psychotic ideas, filled with longing and melancholy. Darkly funny, filled with acidic observations and told with a frenetic pace,
The Translator's Bride is an incredible ride—whether you're a translator or not!
After his bride leaves him, the Translator tries to figure out how to put his life back together. His employers aren't paying him, he's trying to survive a woman's unwanted advances, and he's trying to make the best of his desperate living conditions. Darkly funny, filled with acidic observations and told with a frenetic pace, this work is an incredible ride--whether the reader is a translator or not. not.
"The circuitous absorption of
The Translator's Bride is sustained by its novella-like structure and dark, gleaming humor. . . . [Its] language is beautiful, mordant, and tragic."
—Meg Nola, Foreword Reviews"
The Translator's Bride is a neurotic little gem: fast, fun, frenzied, and feisty."
—Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books"
The Translator's Bride is a great little book that brings a breath of fresh air to today's moment in Portuguese literature, asserting itself as an excellent novel not to be forgotten."
—Jorge Navarro, O Tempo Entre Os Meus Livros"João Reis . . . is a great connoisseur of literary comedy, in a subtle way in which everything is so natural, but simultaneously rude, with the cruel ways in which various characters are depicted, thus creating a blackly comic web that weaves together the world of the book."
—Nelson Zagalo, Virtual Illusion"João Reis' great success in
The Translator's Bride is to convince his audience that they are reading a work written at modernism's mid-twentieth-century zenith . . . pulling us out of our own times and holding us in the era of
Ulysses and
Mrs Dalloway."
—West Camel, European Literature Network"Reis's novel is both surprising and hilarious."
—Publishers Weekly 
