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The Splendor of Portugal (Portuguese Literature Series) by Antunes, António Lobo; McNeil, Rhett is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Splendor of Portugal (Portuguese Literature Series) about?
<p><strong>From the author <em>The New Yorker</em> hails as “one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere.”</strong></p> <p><em><br> The Splendor of Portugal</em>’s four narrators are members of a once well-to-do family whose plantation was lost in the Angolan War of Independence; the matriarch of this unhappiest of clans and her three adult children speak in a nightmarish, remorseless gush to give us the details of their grotesque family life. Like a character out of Faulkner’s decayed south, the mother clings to the hope that her children will come back, save her from destitution, and restore the family’s imagined former glory. The children, for their part, haven’t seen each other in years, and in their isolation are tormented by feverish memories of Angola. The vitriol and self-hatred of the characters know no bounds, for they are at once victims and culprits, guilty of atrocities committed in the name of colonialism as well as the cruel humiliations and betrayals of their own kin. Antunes again proves that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator into the worst excesses of the human animal.</p>
Who reads The Splendor of Portugal (Portuguese Literature Series)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Antunes, António Lobo; McNeil, Rhett
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781564786937
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14