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Language: English
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009
- Softcover
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- Title
- The Implacable Order of Things
- Author
- Peixoto, Jose Luis
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 030738828X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307388285
- Item weight
- 0.53 pounds
Winner of the José Saramago Literary Award
In an unnamed Portuguese village, against a backdrop of severe rural poverty, two generations of men and women struggle with love, violence, death, and--perhaps worst of all--the inescapability of fate.
A pair of twins conjoined at the pinky, a 120-year-old wise man, a shepherd turned cuckold by a giant, and even the Devil himself make up the unforgettably oddball cast of The Implacable Order of Things. As these lost souls come together and drift apart, José Luís Peixoto masterfully reveals the absurd, heartbreaking, and ultimately bewitching aspects of human nature in a literary performance that heralds the arrival of an astoundingly gifted and poetic writer.
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