The splendor of Portugal
by Antunes, António Lobo, McNeil, Rhett
fromPortuguese literature series
"The Splendor of Portugal'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, obsessive gush to give us the details o…