An Explanation of the Birds by António Lobo Antunes

An Explanation of the Birds

António Lobo Antunes with Richard Zenith

261 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

fiction reflective slow-paced
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Rui S., a political historian, is unable to accept the circumstances of his life: his mother's death from cancer, his estrangement from his family, his rejection by his first wife and children, his political vacillations and his ambigious feelings...

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