Description
In the aftermath of Portugal’s colonial wars, four narrators bound by a once-prosperous family legacy unravel in a relentless, nightmarish chorus. Their plantation has been lost in Angola, and as the matriarch clings to a fading fantasy of return and restoration, her three adult children—isolated and haunted—replay feverish memories that refuse to stay buried. What emerges is a portrait of fractured kinship and moral collapse, where love and cruelty, victimhood and complicity, blur into one another as colonial violence echoes through private life. With António Lobo Antunes’s signature, fearless stylistic intensity, the novel becomes a searching investigation of guilt, self-deception, and the splendor that survives only as a ruinous illusion.
Available Editions
paperback
Dalkey Archive Press
Published Jan 1, 2011
392 pages
ISBN: 9781564786937
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Details
First Published
2011
Language
eng
Translation
From: por
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Splendor of Portugal by António Lobo Antunes.