Download or read book Alentejo Blue written by Monica Ali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of short stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal features a range of colorful characters, linked by a vivid sense of place and time, including Teresa, a beautiful young girl from the village engaged to a suitable man, who yearns to see the world, and Vasco, a café owner who is losing business to the new Internet café down the road. By the author of Brick Lane. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.