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As the socialist revolution closes in, a once-wealthy Portuguese family is accused of "economic sabotage". They must escape across the border to Spain, then on to Brazil - but the family is bankrupt, financially and spiritually. The patriarch, Diogo, lies dying, while his rapacious offspring rifle through his belongings, searching for his will. Told through a rippling overlay of voices, Act of the Damned circles closer and closer to the revelation of the diabolical immorality of Diogo's greedy son-in-law Rodrigo ... who has fathered a child on his own bastard daughter and who is closing in on Diogo's crumbling estate. In the oppressive autumn heat, the characters' schemes ebb and flow in an atmosphere of decrepit elegance, tarnished silver, and rotting brocade. When the moment of departure finally arrives, the scene shifts from chaos to vacuum and Rodrigo finds himself no longer at the center of the group but firmly, terrifyingly, outside and alone.

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Act of the Damned

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With cinematic drama, Portuguese writer Antonio Lobo Antunes chronicles a once-wealthy family as the socialist revolution closes in. Accused of "economic sabotage," they must escape. The narrative begins its intense and winding journey with Diogo, the patriarch, who lies dying, and then branches out into a multitude of voices. He remembers his marriage to his brother's beautiful mistress, the Mongoloid daughter she bore him, and the day she abandoned him. Meanwhile, his children search lustily for his will.

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As the socialist revolution closes in, a once-wealthy Portuguese family is accused of "economic sabotage". They must escape across the border to Spain, then on to Brazil - but the family is bankrupt, financially and spiritually. The patriarch, Diogo, lies dying, while his rapacious offspring rifle through his belongings, searching for his will. Told through a rippling overlay of voices, Act of the Damned circles closer and closer to the revelation of the diabolical immorality of Diogo's greedy son-in-law Rodrigo ... who has fathered a child on his own bastard daughter and who is closing in on Diogo's crumbling estate. In the oppressive autumn heat, the characters' schemes ebb and flow in an atmosphere of decrepit elegance, tarnished silver, and rotting brocade. When the moment of departure finally arrives, the scene shifts from chaos to vacuum and Rodrigo finds himself no longer at the center of the group but firmly, terrifyingly, outside and alone.

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"A powerful and very modern novel of individuals, a city, and a country all struggling to make peace with the past and to find a place in the present and a purpose in the future."

"A tumultuous, baroque, Viscontian novel."

"...for all this frenzied book's wretched excess, the fury of its rhetoric takes on all but irresistible momentum, dragging the reader, albeit kicking and screaming, into its lunatic orbit."

"[Author Lobo Antunes's work]...reads like a mad amalgam of Dos Passos and Celine....A remarkable savage swirl fo imagery...created by one of Portugal's pre-eminent writers....Miraculous."

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Author

Antonio Lobo Antunes, Richard Zenith

Translator

Richard Zenith

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780802134769

List Price

$12.00

Publisher

Grove Pr

Publication Date

10/01/1996

Fiction/Non-Fiction

Fiction

Release Status

In Print

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Pages

246

Measurements

Weight: 0.65 Pounds

Height: 8.5 Inches

Length: 5.5 Inches

Thickness: 0.5 Inches


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