The Land at the End of the World
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Considered to be Ant?nio Lobo Antunes's masterpiece, The Land at the End of the World --now in a new and fully restored translation by acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa--recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war, who, like the Ancient Mariner, will tell his tale to anyone who listens. In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Lobo Antunes weaves words into an exhilarating tapestry, imbuing...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393077764
ISBN13:9780393077766
Release Date:May 2011
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.6"
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South of Africa
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
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.
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