The Land at the End of the World: A Novel - Hardcover

Antonio Lobo Antunes; Margaret Juli Costa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393077764 ISBN 13: 9780393077766

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011

Synopsis

In The Land at the End of the World, one of the twentieth century's most original literary voices delivers a haunting and heartrending meditation on the absurdities of love and war. Considered to be Antonio Lobo Antunes's masterpiece, The Land at the End of the World-now in a new and fully restored translation by Margaret Jull Costa-recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war, who, like the Ancient Mariner, will tell his tale to anyone who listens. The narrator, recently returned to Lisbon after his hellish tour of duty in Angola, confesses the traumas of his memory to a nameless lover. Their evening unfolds like a fever dream, as Lobo Antunes leaps deftly back and forth from descriptions of post-dictatorship Portugal to the bizarre and brutal world of life on the front line. The result, both tragic and absurd, belongs among the great war novels of the modern age.

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Review:

Lobo Antunes has been hailed as Portugal's greatest living writer and, judging by this brilliant portrait of mental trauma, I would be inclined to agree. He conveys, like little else I've read, how the emotional scars of combat never fully disappear. --Lucy Popescu, The Independent

About the Author:

Antonio Lobo Antunes, born in 1942, is the author of twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? He lives in Lisbon. Margaret Jull Costa is an award-winning translator of Portuguese and Spanish literature. She lives in the United Kingdom.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393077764
• ISBN 13: 9780393077766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224