"The Creation of the World" is the autobiography of one of Portugal's most celebrated modern writers, Miguel Torga. Six days comprise "The Creation", published in English in its entirety for the first time. We begin with Torga's childhood in the wi...

Miguel Torga's celebrated Tales ("Contos and Novos Contos de Montanha") are set in the remote and barren Tras-os-Montos-"over the mountains"-region of north-east Portugal. There the writer was born into a family of illiterate country people. He speak...