Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water

Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water - Margellos World Republic of Letters Book

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Publisher's Synopsis

A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of Europe's most brilliant authors

Award‑winning author António Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty‑seven months in Angola, Lobo Antunes tells the story of a young African boy who is brought to Portugal by one of the soldiers who destroyed the child's village, and of the boy's subsequent brutal murder of this adoptive father figure at a ritual pig killing.

Deftly framing the events through an assembly of interwoven narratives and perspectives, this is one of Lobo Antunes's most captivating and experimental books. It is also a timely consideration of the lingering wounds that remain from the conflict between European expansionism and its colonized victims who were forced to accept the norms of a supposedly superior culture.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780300226621
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 869.342
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 702g
Height: 229mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 27mm