A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of
Europe's most brilliant authors Award-winning author Antonio Lobo
Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in
Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing
on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for
twenty-seven months in Angola, Lobo Antunes tells the story of a
young African boy who is brought to Portugal by one of the soldiers
who destroyed the child's village, and of the boy's subsequent
brutal murder of this adoptive father figure at a ritual pig
killing. Deftly framing the events through an assembly of
interwoven narratives and perspectives, this is one of Lobo
Antunes's most captivating and experimental books. It is also a
timely consideration of the lingering wounds that remain from the
conflict between European expansionism and its colonized victims
who were forced to accept the norms of a supposedly superior
culture.
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