Land at the End of the World

by António Lobo Antunes

Book Overview

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the twentieth century s most original literary voices offers kaleidoscopic visions of a modern Portugal scarred by its Fascist past and its bloody colonial wars in Africa (Paris Review). Hailed as a masterpiece of world literature, The Land at the End of the World in an acclaimed translation by Margaret Jull Costa recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393342336
• ISBN13: 9780393342338
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

South of Africa

This book is built as a memoir of the narrator of his life on the war of Angola, circa 1972/3. Thw colonial war against the portuguese army and the dictorship of the Portuguese goverment ended with the revolution in Portugal. Here the author tells in an almost biographic way the life on a camp on the south of Angola.