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Book Synopsis The Splendor of Portugal by : António Lobo Antunes
Download or read book The Splendor of Portugal written by António Lobo Antunes and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Splendor of Portugal's four narrators are members of a once well-to-do family whose plantation was lost in the Angolan War of Independence; the matriarch of this unhappiest of clans and her three adult children speak in a nightmarish, remorseless gush to give us the details of their grotesque family life. Like a character out of Faulkner's decayed south, the mother clings to the hope that her children will come back, save her from destitution, and restore the family's imagined former glory. The children, for their part, haven't seen each other in years, and in their isolation are tormented by feverish memories of Angola. The vitriol and self-hatred of the characters know no bounds, for they are at once victims and culprits, guilty of atrocities committed in the name of colonialism as well as the cruel humiliations and betrayals of their own kin. Antunes again proves that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator into the worst excesses of the human animal.
Book Synopsis The Splendor of Portugal by : António Lobo Antunes
Download or read book The Splendor of Portugal written by António Lobo Antunes and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brutal dissection of guilt, victimhood, self-hatred, betrayal, and atrocities both political and domestic, Antunes proves once more that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator of the worst excesses of the human animal.
Book Synopsis The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL The north and the center Vol1 by : Eric JULIEN
Download or read book The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL The north and the center Vol1 written by Eric JULIEN and published by PLANETARIUM EDITIONS. This book was released on with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal reveals its true face through a process of discovery. In each of its features, a river flows or a mountain rises up to reveal a special, unique image for each of its richly intense regions, thus creating a land of enduring memories, a genuine record of its development especially during the Age of Discovery when Portuguese art was at its peak.
Book Synopsis The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL Vol2 The center and the south by : Eric JULIEN
Download or read book The beauty and splendor of PORTUGAL Vol2 The center and the south written by Eric JULIEN and published by PLANETARIUM EDITIONS. This book was released on with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Openly facing the wide expanse of ocean, Portugal continues its quest beyond its own borders. It is a country welcoming its guests, who find themselves seduced by its charm. The beauty of this country, steeped in its own traditions, shines through a succession of invasions and conquests that make up its history, affording the country its authenticity and grace. Portugal runs on down to the Algarve. This magnificent coastline always captivates tourists but it is the picturesque charm of the interior that will without doubt seduce the curious explorer in search of authenticity.
Book Synopsis The Teacher's Journal by : Arras Jones
Download or read book The Teacher's Journal written by Arras Jones and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Teacher's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water by : António Lobo Antunes
Download or read book Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water written by António Lobo Antunes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of Europe’s most brilliant authors Award-winning author António 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.
Book Synopsis The Natural Order of Things by : António Lobo Antunes
Download or read book The Natural Order of Things written by António Lobo Antunes and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He [the author] draws us into a labyrinth of disparate lives whose connections become clear only gradually ... a diabetic teenage girl in Lisbon, her father, an officer in the pre-revolutionary armey and a secret policeman."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula by : Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza
Download or read book A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula written by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested.Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda."A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.
Download or read book Conquerors written by Roger Crowley and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid - a epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality. Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation.
Book Synopsis The History of Portugal, from the First Ages of the World, to ... 1640. Written in Spanish ... Translated and Continued Down to ... 1698 by Capt. J. Stevens by : Manuel de Faria e Sousa
Download or read book The History of Portugal, from the First Ages of the World, to ... 1640. Written in Spanish ... Translated and Continued Down to ... 1698 by Capt. J. Stevens written by Manuel de Faria e Sousa and published by . This book was released on 1698 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The history of the revolutions of Portugal, etc by : Vertot (abbé de)
Download or read book The history of the revolutions of Portugal, etc written by Vertot (abbé de) and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Volker Poelzl Publisher :Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd ISBN 13 :9814435627 Total Pages :322 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (144 download)
Book Synopsis CultureShock! Portugal by : Volker Poelzl
Download or read book CultureShock! Portugal written by Volker Poelzl and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CultureShock! Portugal is every reader’s guide to living, working and adapting to life in this beautiful, charming country. Packed full of useful information, this book will answer all your questions and provide you with much, much more. Find out how to obtain a work visa, how to enrol your children in the schooling system, where to live, and what to bring from home. As well as providing the practical information essential for anyone moving to a foreign land, this book guides you through the picturesque countryside, from vineyards to almond groves. Visit old-fashioned villages where bar owners know their patrons and grocers know their customers. Discover how the work environment ticks and what is important to the Portuguese people. For anyone wanting to truly understand and experience what it is like to live in Portugal, CultureShock! Portugal is a must read.
Book Synopsis The Portugal Story by : John Dos Passos
Download or read book The Portugal Story written by John Dos Passos and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research. “Dos Passos,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings to his material a novelist’s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know.”
Book Synopsis Notes on Portugal by : Emanuel A. Gomes
Download or read book Notes on Portugal written by Emanuel A. Gomes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Book Synopsis Don Sebastian, king of Portugal by : Gaetano Donizetti
Download or read book Don Sebastian, king of Portugal written by Gaetano Donizetti and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Furniture written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
