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The Natural Order of Things
By (author) António Lobo Antunes, Translated by Translator Richard Zenith
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From literary master Antóoacute;nio Lobo Antunes, comes a richly textured and multi-vocal tale of two families and the secrets that bind them. In The Natural Order of Things, a diabetic teenage girl in a Lisbon apartment complex is kept awake by the whispered childhood memories of the middle-aged civil servant lover she despises. Her father, once a miner in South Africa, is now reduced to dreams of ""flying underground."" An officer in the pre-revolutionary army is tortured in prison on charges of conspiracy, plagued by memories of his illegitimate sister, locked away to live as a ghost in the attic like Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre. A secret policeman, who has abandoned his sanity to teach hypnotism by correspondence course, unwittingly holds the key to their secret histories. The voices in The Natural Order of Things create a portrait of a disintegrating Portugal and a personal political history that attains the brilliance of Elias Canetti and Nikolai Gogol.
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Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published date | 16 May 2001
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-8021-3813-2
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BISAC | fiction / literary
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