An Explanation of the Birds (Antunes, Antonio Lobo)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802134203 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 261 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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James W. Fonseca said Our main character is a teacher and a scholar who disappointed his father and his family by not going into. Every character is deeply flawed; every cup is cracked; every window is grimy; every spoon is greasy. The seaside resort is choked with fog and seaweed. When you look out at the resort you see a homeless man defecating by the dumpster. Welcome to Antunes’ Portugal. The story is set in the 1970’s shortly after Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, when the dictator, Salaza. ian colford said Mesmerizing tale of a squandered past and bleak future. As Rui S., Mesmerizing tale of a squandered past and bleak future As Rui S., 33 year old professor of political science and failed husband, son, and lover, looks back on his limited accomplishments, he contemplates his future and finds it particularly bleak. The son of a powerful and wealthy industrialist, Rui turned his back on the family business, studied the liberal arts, and joined the Communist Party. He married Tucha, a beautiful shrew, and fa. Mesmerizing tale of a squandered past and bleak future As Rui S., 33 year old professor of political science and failed husband, son, and lover, looks back on his limited accomplishments, he contemplates his future and finds it particularly bleak. The son of a powerful and wealthy industrialist, Rui turned his back on the family business, studied the liberal arts, and joined the Communist Party. He married Tucha, a beautiful shrew, and fa. year old professor of political science and failed husband, son, and lover, looks back on his limited accomplishments, he contemplates his future and finds it particularly bleak. The son of a powerful and wealthy industrialist, Rui turned his back on the family business, studied the liberal arts, and joined the Communist Party. He married Tucha, a beautiful shrew, and fa
Rui S., a political historian, is unable to accept the circumstances of his life: his mother's death from cancer, his estrangement from his family, his rejection by his first wife and children, his political vacillations and his ambigious feelings for his second wife.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Rui imagines his family as circus performers; ruthlessly stripped of their pretensions, they regard his own suicidal tendencies as worthy of ring-side attention. From Publishers Weekly The Portuguese author of Fado Alexandrino offers a dizzying, kaleidoscopic portrait of a weak-willed man destroyed by the bourgeois expectations of his wealthy family. During the course of the novel, Rui S. . The disintegration of Rui's personality proceeds rapidly from this point, but not before Antunes has a chance to explore the uneasy social politics of Portugal. suffers a mental breakdown, and the distinctions between fact and fiction, between past, present and future, blur in Antunes's brilliant narration. Rui fails even at his attempt to end his second marriage. When his first marriage (to