City of Ulysses

By Teolinda Gersão Translated by Jethro Soutar and Annie McDermott ISBN: 9781943150175 Publication Date: 6/23/17 A man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses is their story, and the city's love story besides. It is a story that leads readers down multiple paths, through myth and history, reality and fantasy, literature and the visual arts, the past and the present, male and female relations, the crisis of civilization and the need to reimagine the world. Reviews "The quiet echoes of moments from The Odyssey, as when Paulo casts Cecília in the role of Nausicaa, are just right . . . Gersão deserves a wider audience in English.” —Kirkus Reviews "This story is, of course, a love story but one that cleverly intertwines with that love affair the idea of art and what it is, and the idea of a city, a city unknown to all too many people and a city, that like most cities, has parts which are unknown to many of its inhabitants. Unlike most cities this is the City of Ulysses,