{"product_id":"the-return-of-the-caravels-paperback","title":"The Return of the Caravels - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGregory Rabassa\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, \"a master navigator of the human psyche . . . [with] the voice of Nabokov by way of Cortazar, Gogol by way of Dylan\" (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled \"hallucinatory and lyrical\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Caravels\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies gain their independence in the mid-1970s. In a contemporary response to Camões conquest epic \u003ci\u003eThe Lusiads\u003c\/i\u003e, Antunes imagines Vasco da Gama and other heroes of Portuguese explorations beached amid the detritus of the empire's collapse. Or is it the modern colonials--with their mixed-race heritage and uneasy place in the \"fatherland\"--who have somehow ended up in sixteenth-century Lisbon? As da Gama begins winning back ownership of Lisbon piece by piece in crooked card games, four hundred years of Portuguese history mingle--the caravels dock next to Iraqi oil tankers, and the slave trade rubs shoulders with the duty-free shops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Caravels\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling and uncompromising look at one of Europe's great colonial powers, and how the era of conquest reshaped not just Portugal but the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e, \"one of Portugal's pre-eminent writers\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), was born in Lisbon in 1942. The son of a physician, he too became a doctor and then spent four years in the Portuguese army during the Angolan war. His fictional \"memoir\" of that war, \u003ci\u003e South of Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e, was internationally praised and followed by other widely translated and much-honored novels, including \u003ci\u003eAct of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFado Alexandrino\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExplanation of the Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Order of Things\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.28 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52911513403616,"sku":"9780802139559","price":19.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/pAlrrZlKR39780802139559.webp?v=1781271597","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-return-of-the-caravels-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}