The Natural Order of Things

The Natural Order of Things is a tale of two families and the secrets that bind them. The voices of Antunes' characters -- an army officer being tortured in prison on charges of conspiracy; an elderly man, once a miner in Mozambique, now reduced to dreams of flying underground; a diabetic teenage girl and the middle-aged husband she despises; the officer's illegitimate sister, locked away to haunt the house like Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre -- create a portrait of a disintegrating Portugal, a personal political history that attains the brilliance and surreality of Elias Canetti and Nikolai Gogol.

Author: Ant?nio Lobo Antunes
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 05/16/2001
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.50w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780802138132