Full name: The Land at the End of the World: A Novel

Author: Antonio Lobo Antunes Year: 1979 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393077766 9780393342338 0393077764 0393342336

Considered to be Antonio Lobo Antunes's masterpiece, The Land at the End of the World--now in a new and fully restored translation by acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa--recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war, who, like the Ancient Mariner, will tell his tale to anyone who listens. In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lobo Antunes weaves words into an exhilarating tapestry, imbuing his prose with the grace and resonance of poetry. The narrator, freshly returned to Lisbon after his hellish tour of duty in Angola, confesses the traumas of his memory to a nameless lover. Their evening unfolds like a fever dream, as Lobo Antunes leaps deftly back and forth from descriptions of postdictatorship Portugal to the bizarre and brutal world of life on the front line. The result is both tragic and absurd, and belongs among the great war novels of the modern age. Similar books: Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago The Great Santini by Pat Conroy The Fire Dream by Franklin Allen Leib Dirty work by Larry Brown The Long Voyage by Jorge Semprun The Red Baron by Richard Fox Black N by Ricky Conlin The Uncle's Story by Witi Ihimaera Landfall by Nevil Shute The barracks thief by Tobias Wolff Song for Night by Chris Abani Gods Go Begging by Alfredo Vea The Revolt of Gunner Asch by Hans Hellmut Kirst The Splendor of Portugal by Antonio Lobo Antunes Learning to Stay by Erin Celello Lost Soldiers by James Webb The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi Gunner Asch Goes to War by Hans Hellmut Kirst