{"title":"Manuel Tiago","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the socially conscious and gripping novels of Manuel Tiago. Explore tales of Portuguese life under Salazar's dictatorship, perfect for readers seeking historical depth and compelling characters. Browse his powerful works.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"five-days-five-nights-book-manuel-tiago-9780717807895","title":"Five Days, Five Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Portuguese Communist Party is, proportionate to the size of the country's population, one of the largest in the world, certainly in the capitalist world. It must have come as something of a surprise for Portuguese readers to learn that its longtime leader, Alvaro Cunhal, had made a sideline career for himself as a neorealist fiction writer. This book is the first to appear in English. International Publishers, renowned for its historic catalogue of publications of non-fiction, including Marxist theoretical studies, fiction, memoir and poetry, is proud to present this unusual novella as a long overdue expression of gratitude for Alvaro Cunhal's self sacrificing leadership of the Portuguese Communists during most of the half-century of fascism in his land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStylistically, Five Days, Five Nights approximates something of the 1940s and '50s noir writers' and filmmakers' hyperrealist sensibilities, though any direct influence on the writer is not likely, for Cunhal wrote this book while imprisoned in Portugal in the 1950s. He was able to slip it past the censors, who saw little specifically political in it, merely the story of an emigrant escaping the country, a common occurrence at the time. Notably, there is no reference to the Party as such, though readers are welcome to infer its presence in the background.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe manuscript of this novella was found in the archives of the Forte de Peniche, where Cunhal had been imprisoned. Cunhal had left it behind when he escaped on January 3, 1960, although he did take with him the manuscript to another, much longer and more specifically political novel, At  Amanh , Camaradas. After the 25th of April 1974 Revolution that brought an end to fascism in Portugal, the military\u003cbr\u003e officers in charge of the fort returned the manuscript to Cunhal, and he published it in 1975 under the pseudonym Manuel Tiago, with a fictitious indication that it had been found in the author's papers after his death (an explanation he also used for At  Amanh , Camaradas). At the time the true authorship of these books was known only to the Party leadership. Only later in life, in 1994, did Cunhal acknowledge that he was Manuel Tiago, pseudonymous author of several books (whose titles are noted in the biography of the\u003cbr\u003e author).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCunhal had obviously heard many stories of his comrades' clandestine emigration across the border. Possibly, too, there may be some autobiographical content to the story given the author's involvement in the Portuguese student movement in Lisbon in the very early years of Ant nio Salazar's Estado Novo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEstado Novo or-- New State was a version of fascism and a setting of the story in the early 1930s would seem probable. Furthermore, it seems to predate the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and Francisco Franco's subsequent fascist regime, if we are to accept the logic of an escape over the border from the oppressive Portugal to an untroubled Spain as described in the book. However, If we understand the story as existing outside of a specific time, involving archetypal situations, relationships and circumstances, then to that extent it achieves a certain universality, standing in for similar, parallel conditions almost anywhere in the world at any time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the final analysis, Five Days, Five Nights surely was written to remind readers not only of the sacrifices made by fascism's resisters, but of the loss of creativity and intelligence that Portugal suffered due to fascism's\u003cbr\u003e erosion of talented, hardworking citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49633934835985,"sku":"GOR012959678","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738708943121,"sku":"NGR9780717807895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50358236807441,"sku":"CIN0717807894VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006309990673,"sku":"NIN9780717807895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52688948068625,"sku":"NLS9780717807895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0717807894.jpg?v=1751447152"},{"product_id":"slackers-book-manuel-tiago-9780717808847","title":"The Slackers","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743494545681,"sku":"NGR9780717808847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51284865712401,"sku":"NIN9780717808847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52522619535633,"sku":"NLS9780717808847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/071780884X.jpg?v=1750847736"},{"product_id":"3rd-floor-book-manuel-tiago-9780717808717","title":"The 3rd Floor","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744054649105,"sku":"NGR9780717808717","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52516471898385,"sku":"NLS9780717808717","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0717808718.jpg?v=1751393931"},{"product_id":"eulalia-s-house-book-manuel-tiago-9780717808786","title":"Eulalia's House","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49749660860689,"sku":"NGR9780717808786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52335317057809,"sku":"NLS9780717808786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0717808785.jpg?v=1750700137"},{"product_id":"line-in-the-sand-book-manuel-tiago-9780717800322","title":"A Line in the Sand","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51006239015185,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006242783505,"sku":"NIN9780717800322","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52347165901073,"sku":"NLS9780717800322","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0717800326.jpg?v=1751263329"},{"product_id":"until-tomorrow-comrades-book-manuel-tiago-9780717809387","title":"Until Tomorrow Comrades","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntil Tomorrow, Comrades\u0026gt;\u003c\/em\u003eis an immersive epic novel, written in the 1950s, as Manuel Tiago, ( lvaro Cunhal), languished in a fascist high-security prison. He escaped on January 3, 1960, with this precious manuscript. The story closely mirrors actual events and movements that the Portuguese Communist Party promulgated in the early 1940s. Regional and general strikes with thousands of workers in fields and factories paralyzed the economy, protesting hunger and unlivable wages. This bold strategy inevitably exposed numerous comrades, who suffered imprisonment, poor health and death, a risk their leaders naturally assumed. How else could the Portuguese people assert their demands and be heard?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese movements firmly established the PCP in the popular mind as the most dedicated force opposing the regime. Though not strictly autobiographical, the novel reflects Cunhal's lived experience as a party leader. Critics consider it his masterpiece, comparable to  mile Zola's Germinal. This seminal work firmly establishes the entire cultural understanding of the fascist period. 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There are three political prisoners in this novelistic m moire, but mostly we meet men convicted for other types of crimes, many of them violent. But in a backward, repressive society, is stealing food for the poor or trying to demand justice for your fellow workers truly a crime? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany writers have applied their gritty realism to the subject of prison, again, some from personal experience. \u003cem\u003eThe Six-Pointed Star\u003c\/em\u003e, now available to an English-language readership, joins the select company of great books on this theme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author opens and closes his account on the outside of the prison. On almost every page, he tells stories, some tragic, some even with elements of humor, showing that life on the inside mirrors that on the outside. All the human qualities, both positive and negative, that we see there, we also see here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this composite tapestry of a place, a time, and a shifting population of 500 men, almost any reader will be able to identify moments in their own lives when they were just \u003cem\u003ethis far away\u003c\/em\u003e from committing a crime, or wanting to, and ending up as these men did. However many reasons there may be why people commit crimes, even heinous ones, prison does not cancel a person's humanity. 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