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The Return of the Caravels

By Antunes, António Lobo

The Return of the Caravels book

The Return of the Caravels

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A powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, “a master navigator of the human psyche . . . [with] the voice of Nabokov by way of Cortazar, Gogol by way of Dylan” (Los Angeles Times) Called “hallucinatory and lyrical” (Publishers Weekly), The Return of the Caravels unfolds in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies gain their independence in the mid-1970s. In a contemporary response to Camões 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 heritage and uneasy place in the “fatherland”—who have somehow ended up in sixteenth-century Lisbon? As da Gama begins winning back ownership of Lisbon piece by piece in crooked card games, four hundred years of Portuguese history mingle—the caravels dock next to Iraqi oil tankers, and the slave trade rubs shoulders with the duty-free shops. The Return of the Caravels is a startling and uncompromising look at one of Europe's great colonial powers, and how the era of conquest reshaped not just Portugal but the world.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2003-01-06
Publication Date:
2003-01-06
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0802139558
ISBN13:
9780802139559
Weight:
254 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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