The publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces the publication of The Undiscovered Island by Darrell Kastin.
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Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces the publication of The Undiscovered Island by Darrell Kastin.
Alarmed by her father's unexplained disappearance, Julia Castro travels from California to her family's ancestral home in the Azores to find the islands abuzz with tales of ghost ships, seductive sirens, and witchcraft. The mystery deepens when a drowned man's body is discovered on a mountainside, and an unknown island emerges from the sea. While she is on the hunt for her father, Julia succumbs to the bewitching allure of the islands—and to Nicolau, a fellow musician. History, legend, poetry, and myth are seamlessly interwoven as the novel explores relationships between personal and cultural identity, fate and self-determination, reality, and illusion. This revised edition of The Undiscovered Island features a new introduction from Katherine Vaz.
Darrell Kastin is the author of The Conjurer and Other Azorean Tales and Shadowboxing with Bukowski. The Undiscovered Island was awarded the Independent Publisher's Silver Prize for Multicultural Fiction. He is currently finishing a sequel titled Tales of the Azorean Nights.
Katherine Vaz has been a Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of several novels, including Above the Salt.
The Undiscovered Island is volume 29 of the Portuguese in the Americas Series, edited by Francisco Cota Fagundes (UMass Amherst).
To purchase The Undiscovered Island, please visit the University of Massachusetts Press website.