Description
As a Portuguese socialist revolution tightens its grip, the last days of a once-wealthy family unfold under suspicion and accusation, with economic sabotage casting a long shadow over every decision. While the household fractures and an escape across the border to Spain becomes a desperate possibility, a dying patriarch’s presence turns private betrayals into a reckoning. In the midst of political upheaval, a calculating son-in-law maneuvers to secure what remains of the crumbling estate, revealing how greed can thrive even as history closes in. With António Lobo Antunes’s incisive, psychologically charged style, the novel explores power, moral compromise, and the haunting ways families weaponize loyalty when the future offers no safe harbor.
Available Editions
paperback
Grove Press
Published Sep 12, 1996
246 pages
ISBN: 9780802134769
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Details
First Published
1985
Language
eng
Translation
From: por
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Act of the Damned by António Lobo Antunes.