
On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to re kindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the c olonial war that was Portugal’s Vietnam. In turn, they tell the stories of their lives before, during, and after the revolution that overt hr ew the long-lived Salazar dictatorship.
Internationally accl ai med for his fictionalized memoir of the Angolan war, Antunes has, w it h Fado Alexandrino, raised a fabulous Lisbon from the ashes of his four failed but unfor get table protagonists, and in the process has firmly established his reputation as the century’s foremost novel ist in the Portuguese language.
Fado Alexandrino is one of the richest novels to come out of Europe in recent years. Moreover, it reveals a society and culture still too little known to the English-speaking world.
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