The Splendor of Portugal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Splendor of Portugal write by António Lobo Antunes. This book was released on 2011-09-20. The Splendor of Portugal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Splendor of Portugal's four narrators are members of a once well-to-do family whose plantation was lost in the Angolan War of Independence; the matriarch of this unhappiest of clans and her three adult children speak in a nightmarish, remorseless gush to give us the details of their grotesque family life. Like a character out of Faulkner's decayed south, the mother clings to the hope that her children will come back, save her from destitution, and restore the family's imagined former glory. The children, for their part, haven't seen each other in years, and in their isolation are tormented by feverish memories of Angola. The vitriol and self-hatred of the characters know no bounds, for they are at once victims and culprits, guilty of atrocities committed in the name of colonialism as well as the cruel humiliations and betrayals of their own kin. Antunes again proves that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator into the worst excesses of the human animal.
The Splendor of Portugal
The Splendor of Portugal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Splendor of Portugal write by António Lobo Antunes. This book was released on 2011-09-20. The Splendor of Portugal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this brutal dissection of guilt, victimhood, self-hatred, betrayal, and atrocities both political and domestic, Antunes proves once more that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator of the worst excesses of the human animal.
The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL The north and the center Vol1
The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL The north and the center Vol1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL The north and the center Vol1 write by Eric JULIEN. This book was released on . The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL The north and the center Vol1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Portugal reveals its true face through a process of discovery. In each of its features, a river flows or a mountain rises up to reveal a special, unique image for each of its richly intense regions, thus creating a land of enduring memories, a genuine record of its development especially during the Age of Discovery when Portuguese art was at its peak.
The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL Vol2 The center and the south
The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL Vol2 The center and the south - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL Vol2 The center and the south write by Eric JULIEN. This book was released on . The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL Vol2 The center and the south available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Openly facing the wide expanse of ocean, Portugal continues its quest beyond its own borders. It is a country welcoming its guests, who find themselves seduced by its charm. The beauty of this country, steeped in its own traditions, shines through a succession of invasions and conquests that make up its history, affording the country its authenticity and grace. Portugal runs on down to the Algarve. This magnificent coastline always captivates tourists but it is the picturesque charm of the interior that will without doubt seduce the curious explorer in search of authenticity.
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water write by António Lobo Antunes. This book was released on 2019-09-24. Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of Europe’s most brilliant authors Award-winning author António Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty-seven months in Angola, Lobo Antunes tells the story of a young African boy who is brought to Portugal by one of the soldiers who destroyed the child’s village, and of the boy’s subsequent brutal murder of this adoptive father figure at a ritual pig killing. Deftly framing the events through an assembly of interwoven narratives and perspectives, this is one of Lobo Antunes’s most captivating and experimental books. It is also a timely consideration of the lingering wounds that remain from the conflict between European expansionism and its colonized victims who were forced to accept the norms of a supposedly superior culture.
