Michael Arditti
Dalliance in Lisbon
Portugal’s neutrality during the Second World War made it a refuge for exiles and expatriates from all over Europe. The influx of spies and refugees into Lisbon inspired Robert Wilson to use it as a backdrop for the thrillers A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers. Now David Leavitt finds the city the perfect setting in which to explore domestic deceptions and marital disharmony. As Edward Freleng, one of his central characters, puts it, ‘Lisbon is the end of Europe … the fingertip of Europe. And everything that Europe is and means is pressed into that fingertip.’
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