| The Natural Order of Things Contributor(s): Antunes, António Lobo (Author), Zenith, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0802138136 ISBN-13: 9780802138132 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: A novel the Los Angeles Times Book Review called "a work of poetic and erotic genius from a master navigator of the human psyche", The Natural Order of Things is a tale of two families and the secrets that bind them. The voices of his characters -- an army officer being tortured in prison on charges of conspiracy; an elderly man, once a miner in Mozambique, now reduced to dreams of "flying underground"; a diabetic teenage girl and the middle-aged husband she despises; the officer's illegitimate sister, locked away to haunt the house like Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre -- create a portrait of a disintegrating Portugal, a personal political history that attains the brilliance and surreality of Elias Canetti and Nikolai Gogol. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99040063 |
| Series: Antunes, Antonio Lobo |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.5" W x 8.26" (0.81 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Natural Order of Things is a tale of two families and the secrets that bind them. The voices of Antunes' characters -- an army officer being tortured in prison on charges of conspiracy; an elderly man, once a miner in Mozambique, now reduced to dreams of flying underground; a diabetic teenage girl and the middle-aged husband she despises; the officer's illegitimate sister, locked away to haunt the house like Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre -- create a portrait of a disintegrating Portugal, a personal political history that attains the brilliance and surreality of Elias Canetti and Nikolai Gogol. |