What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?
The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde-a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts-is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos's lover, Rui, a heroin addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of t…
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Weitere Autoren: Rabassa, Gregory (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-32948-3
- EAN: 9780393329483
- Produktnummer: 3302797
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 585 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.4 cm x D2.2 cm 544 g
- Gewicht: 544
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António Lobo Antunes, born in 1942 in Benfica, is considered to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, he has won many awards and makes his home in Lisbon.
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