Return of the Caravels

Name: Return of the Caravels
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780802139559

by Unknown Author

224 pages2003Grove/Atlantic, IncorporatedISBN 9780802139559

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As naus is set in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies dissolve in the 1970s. In a contemporary rejoinder to Camoes's conquest epic The Lusiads, Antunes imagines the heroes of Portuguese exploration 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? A white colonial who has married a mulatto woman finds that his papers only entitle him to reside in a ratty bordello, where his wife is forced into whoring at a discotheque. A man named Luis, who has returned from Angola in a ship where Cervantes ripped off all of his material for a "foolish" novel called Quixote, waits on the Lisbon pier with his father's dead body in a casket, as the belongings he shipped home from Africa persistently fail to arrive. And as Vasco da Gama, relieved he no longer has to heed the princes' orders to go discover things, begins winning ownership of Lisbon piece by piece in crooked card games, four hundred years of Portuguese history mingle - caravels dock next to oil tankers, and the slave trade abuts the duty-free shops."

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Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2003
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780802139559

About Unknown Author

António Lobo Antunes (nascido a 1 de Setembro de 1942) é um romancista português e médico reformado. Foi nomeado candidato ao Prémio Nobel da Literatura. Entre outros prémios, recebeu o Prémio Camões (2007), o mais prestigiado da literatura portuguesa, e a Ordem das Artes e Letras da República Francesa. Publicou mais de vinte romances, entre os quais se destacam *Fado Alexandrino* (1983), *As Naus* (1988) e *O Manual dos Inquisidores* (1996). As suas obras foram traduzidas para mais de trinta línguas. ---------- António Lobo Antunes (born 1 September 1942) is a Portuguese novelist and retired medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among other awards, he has received the Camões Prize (2007), the most prestigious in Portuguese literature, and the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. He has published more than twenty novels, among the most important are *Fado Alexandrino* (1983), *As Naus* (1988) and *O Manual dos Inquisidores* (1996). His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.[