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...think the [one-two] finish is possible," Gyorffy said. "But there's still a long way to go. I might go to the World Championships in Lisbon instead of NCAAs, but I need to jump higher than I am right...
...ELECTED. JORGE SAMPAIO, 61, to a second term as President of Portugal; in Lisbon. The Socialist Party candidate won 56% of the vote against 35% for his nearest rival, conservative candidate Joaquim Ferreira do Ama-ral, ensuring a first-round victory. Sampaio benefited from the lackluster opposition's low appeal, though his victory was tempered by poor voter turnout, with only half of those eligible going to the polls...
...Saturday morning in June 1998, homicide Inspector Jose Afonso Coelho of the Lisbon police is notified that the nude body of a teenage girl has been found on a nearby beach. Along with Carlos Pinto, his new partner, Coelho begins to investigate and quickly uncovers some interesting complications. The victim, Catarina Sousa Oliveira, was the daughter of a powerful, well-connected local attorney and his second wife and had already, despite her tender years, demonstrated a precocious fondness for sex and drugs. In fact, she had recently seduced her mother's lover and arranged the tryst so that the mother...
From this point on, Wilson's novel careers along on two tracks--the present investigation in Lisbon and past Nazi activities in Portugal--that slowly but inexorably converge. Inspector Coelho, of course, knows nothing about Klaus Felsen or his murky role on behalf of the Nazis, so the reader is always several steps ahead of the fictional detective. But they are only baby steps, because the connection between Felsen's story and the murder of Catarina Oliveira remains tantalizingly unclear for much of the novel...
...same age as the murder victim. And Wilson's descriptions often achieve epigrammatic power. Here is Felsen visiting bombed-out Berlin near the end of the war: "Everybody was living underground. The city had been turned upside-down--a honeycomb below, a catacomb above." A Small Death in Lisbon is so carefully textured and so packed with grace notes that its dramatic conclusion seems as much interruption as resolution...