The Natural Order of Things

Author/Contributor(s):	Antunes, Antonio Lobo
Publisher:	Grove Press
Date:	05/16/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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.