Experience an Immigrant’s Adventures from the Azores Islands to California in the Early 1900’s

BookSurge proudly announces the publication of Nobody’s Son, translated from Portuguese (O Filho Das Ervas) to English by Maria de Fatima da Silva Neves Serpa.

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) September 30, 2006 -- Nobody’s Son, or (The Son of the Grass) (O Filho Das Ervas), is a beautiful love story, full of high seas adventure about an immigrant, Edgardo, from the Azores Islands and his journey to California in the early 1900’s.

As in the Biblical story of Moses, Edgardo is abandoned as a newborn, but raised by an elderly couple who have no children of their own. Edgardo was 14 when the elderly couple who raised him up died. When he is off serving in the army, he receives word that his adoptive parents have leaving him their small house on the Island of Pico. When he returns home, full of sadness that he has no other family, when his life seems to have no direction, he finds a beautiful young woman from California who, by a quirk of fate (or is it the hand of God), is visiting her parents’ homeland. The love that develops between them carries them through the torturous, adventurous six months boat journey from the Azores Islands to California. The new life they begin is a classic American immigration story -- hard work, difficult circumstances, and the partnership of a husband and wife in raising a family and building a business. Edgardo isn’t Moses leading his people to the Promised Land, but he is a lowly born infant, loved by adoptive parents, who works hard, takes chances and succeeds to build a fruitful life in every immigrant’s Promised Land, America.

Maria Serpa brings a love of her native Portuguese language to this translation that makes the narrative come alive with brilliant word pictures based her personal knowledge of the Azores Islands and story she is translating.

About the Author:
Maria de Fatima da Silva Neves Serpa immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 10, 1969, from the Azores Islands. Since marring Jose Cardoso Serpa in 1971, they have lived in Cambridge, Ontario, the proud parents of two sons. Maria has taken many English and computer courses, enjoys reading and writing, and especially translating from her native Portuguese into English.

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