Lídia Jorge’s Mercy, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, has sold to Archipelago Books. Originally published in Portuguese as Misericórdia by Dom Quixote in 2022, the novel has also been published in Spanish and French, and has won several awards including the Grand Prize for Fiction from the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (Portuguese Writers Association), the Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Literary Prize, and the Prix Médicis Étranger (France’s most prestigious prize for foreign literature). Intended as a memorial to elderly people ignored at the end of their lives, Jorge wrote the novel at the behest of her late mother, who passed away in a nursing home in southern Portugal early in the COVID-19 pandemic.