© Livros Cotovia, 2000
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years, and the seven-year-old son of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the lives of this ménage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are a part.
Faber & Faber 1990
Translated into: Portuguese, Bulgarian
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