The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in
this Faulknerian masterpiece, Antonio Lobo Antunes's first novel to
appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On
Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde a nightclub
milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful
planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts is
narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite,
who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death
of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos's lover, Rui, a heroin
addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of this
hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with
literary symbolism, and deeply sympathetic in its depiction of
society's dregs, Lobo Antunes's novel ventriloquizes the voices of
the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce's Ulysses with
a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget."
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