The Return of the Caravels

Fülszöveg

A New York Times Notable Book of the rear
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 Camoes's 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.
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Fülszöveg

A New York Times Notable Book of the rear
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 Camoes's 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.
"Antunes has empathy for the contradictions of human feeling. He is a warmblooded writer The Return of the Caravels' scale makes it a perfect introduction to the dirty, glittering,world that [Antunes] makes so painfully real." At < rJ 8« c jjt JsiaJZ&afc^^wl^fc
"A twenty-first-century modernist heir to the narrative collage technique championed by such masters as Ferdinand Céline, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov,Thomas Pynchon, and Italo Calvino \The Return of^he Caravels] is the writing of a genius "
—Alan KaufmanSan^Francisco Chronicle Book Review '
Born in Lisbon in 1942, where he currently resides, Ant6nio Lobo Antunes trained as a psychiatrist and spent four years in the Portuguese army during the Angolan War. He is also the award-winning author of Act of the Damned, An Explanation of the Birds, The Natural Order of Things, and Fado Alexandrino, among other novels.
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