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Mountain Doctor

work by Namora

Also known as: “Retalhos da vida de um médico”

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In Fernando Goncalves Namora
…vida de um médico (1949, Mountain Doctor; expanded 1963). In reaction to the oppression and poverty that he observed, he turned to writing antifascist neorealist fiction. In the early 1960s Namora worked at the Lisbon Cancer Institute, but he resigned in 1965 to write full-time. After the Revolution of the…
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