The Splendor of Portugal

by António Lobo Antunes

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564784231
• ISBN13: 9781564784230
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 535 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 7.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher