The Return of the Caravels
Called hallucinatory and lyrical (Publishers Weekly), The Return of the Caravels -- selected as a New York times Summer Reading title -- is a powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, the greatest living Portuguese writer (Vogue). It is set in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies gain their independence in the mid-1970s. In a contemporary response to Camoes's conquest epic The Lusiads, Antunes imagines Vasco da Gama and other heroes of Portuguese explorations beached amid the detritus of the empire's collapse. Or is it the modern colonials -- with their mixed-race h…
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Weitere Autoren: Rabassa, Gregory (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-3955-9
- EAN: 9780802139559
- Produktnummer: 9720675
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 254 g
- Gewicht: 254
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