HMH Literature in Translation

Raised from the Ground, now available in English for the first time, gets reviewed in the New York Times Book Review:

“A short sample can’t really suggest the spell this prose casts and compounds over hundreds of pages, or how, days after you’ve set the book down, its cadences go on looping through your mind like an odd, addictive music…

“Margaret Jull Costa has shown congruent skill in bringing his work across that other key frontier, the one between languages. Her concise footnotes help the reader unpack Portuguese literary references and wordplay, while also supplying necessary historical background. Her efforts have lent us access, at last, to a great writer’s first major work, a novel that resounds with relevance for our own time.”