The Land at the End of the World: A Novel - Softcover

Lobo Antunes, António

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393342336 ISBN 13: 9780393342338

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

Synopsis

"Brilliant...harrowing...Packs the impact of an exploding mortar shell." ―Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, one of the twentieth century’s most original literary voices offers "kaleidoscopic visions of a modern Portugal scarred by its Fascist past and its bloody colonial wars in Africa" (Paris Review). Hailed as a masterpiece of world literature, The Land at the End of the World―in an acclaimed translation by Margaret Jull Costa―recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war. Like the Ancient Mariner who will tell his tale to anyone who listens, the narrator’s evening unfolds like a fever dream that is both tragic and haunting. The result is one of the great war novels of the modern age.

About this title

About the Author:

António Lobo Antunes, born in 1942 in Benfica, is considered to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, he has won many awards and makes his home in Lisbon.

Award-winning translator Margaret Jull Costa lives in England. 

Review:

“[Antunes] has created a memorably unhinged narrator, and [Costa] manages to capture, perfectly and faithfully, the bitter, hallucinatory and increasingly desperate tone of his monologue.”
- Larry Rohter, New York Times

“Lobo Antunes crafts macabre fever dreams as if possessed by an abler Poe, and few other novelists have his Bellovian ability to see both deeply and minutely, to render the world, the fallen world, as if never rendered before.”
- William Giraldi, Daily Beast

“Read António Lobo Antunes' The Land at the End of the World, and you, like the protagonist, may never forget the hallucinatory depravity, degradation and corruption of an unjust war.”
- Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times

“Magnificent prose, dense with striking and unexpected imagery...I was so seized by the novel's spirit that I was motivated to turn to my own. I wanted to imitate Lobo Antunes, and I failed.”
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393342336
• ISBN 13: 9780393342338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226