Winner of the Jos? Saramago Literary Award
In an unnamed Portuguese village, against a backdrop of severe rural poverty, two generations of men and women struggle with love, violence, death, and–perhaps worst of all–the inescapability of fate.
A pair of twins conjoined at the pinky, a 120-year-old wise man, a shepherd turned cuckold by a giant, and even the Devil himself make up the unforgettably oddball cast of
The Implacable Order of Things. As these lost souls come together and drift apart, Jos? Lu?s Peixoto masterfully reveals the absurd, heartbreaking, and ultimately bewitching aspects of human nature in a literary performance that heralds the arrival of an astoundingly gifted and poetic writer.
Author: Jose Luis Peixoto
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/11/2009
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.22w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780307388285
Language: English
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