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The Return of the Caravels

The Return of the Caravels

Antunes, António Lobo
Rabassa, Gregory

Paperback

Series: Antunes, Antonio Lobo

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0802139558
ISBN13: 9780802139559
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jan 6 2003
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

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.

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