- ISBN: 9781857542028 | 1857542029
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/28/1995
These brief and telling stories of rustic life and love are set in the remote and barren Tras-os-Montes - "over the mountains" - region of North East Portugal. The author speaks of the men and women living there, complex in emotion and thought, and elusive and thrifty with words.