The Conjurer and Other Azorean Tales

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The Conjurer and Other Azorean Tales Darrell Kastin Tagus Press  UMass Dartmouth Dartmouth, Massachusetts Portuguese in the Americas Series 19 Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth www.portstudies.umassd.edu© 2012 Darrell Kastin All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America General Editor: Frank F. Sousa Managing Editor: Mario Pereira Copyedited by Peter Fong Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill Typeset in 10/14.5 Calluna Tagus Press books are produced and distributed for Tagus Press by University Press of New England, which is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For all inquiries, please contact: Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth MA 02747-2300 Tel. 508-999-8255 Fax 508-999-9272 www.portstudies.umassd.edu The author would like to thank the editors of the following magazines and journals, in which some of these stories first appeared: Berkeley Fiction Review; Blue Mesa Review; Crescent Review; Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies; Magic Realism; Margin: Exploring Magical Realism; NEO Magazine; Seattle Review; and Sulphur River Literary Review. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kastin, Darrell. The conjurer and other Azorean tales / Darrell Kastin.   p.  cm.—(Portuguese in the Americas series; 19) ISBN 978-1-933227-41-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)— ISBN 978-1-933227-42-9 (ebook) 1. Azores—Fiction. 2. Magic realism (Literature) I. Title. PS3611.A787C66 2012 813'.6—dc23     2012016945 5 4 3 2 1 For Elisabeth ...