Fado Alexandrino -nv

by Antonio Lobo Antunes

Overview

É o grande romance sobre o 25 de Abril. Narra o regresso e reencontro de quatro ex-combatentes da guerra colonial, o modo como a vida se lhes transtornou e se destruiu. A história prende a atenção pela narrativa articulada, por vezes irresistivelmente divertida, em que personagens e caracteres convincentes, bem desenhados, vivem uma intriga de acontecimentos múltiplos e surpreendentes peripécias de timbre trágico e cómico, do quotidiano banal ao sucesso mais insólito.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789722042550
Publisher:	D. QUIXOTE
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Sold by:	Grupos Editorial Leya
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Portuguese

Editorial Reviews

Between 1960 and 1974 tiny but once mighty Portugal sent a million and a half troops to preserve its empire in Angola, where men--scapegoats for the politicians back home--became machine gun-clutching animals in Vietnam-like conditions. Ten years after the coup to overthrow the Portuguese dictatorship and the withdrawal of troops from the African country, four ex-soldiers gather over dinner and wine to confess to one another their respective brutalities, which naturally lead to their present-day brutalities at home. Like the author's highly acclaimed autobiographical novel South from Nowhere ( LJ 5/15/83), in which an Army surgeon relives his 1,001 days in the Angolan hell, this longer and more particularized novel unfolds on many levels, and its quadruple confession leaves no doubt about the decadence and corruption of contemporary Lisbon. Recommended.-- Jack Shreve, Allegany Community Coll. , Cumberland, Md.

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