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An Explanation of the Birds

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“One of Portugal’s pre-eminent writers” has once again proved himself a master of the surreal, creating both a circus-like dream and a mournful eulogy for the lost ideals of post-revolutionary Lisbon. (New York Times).

“One of these days I’ll beach right here, devoured by fish like a dead whale,” muses Rui S., portly thirty-three-year-old political historian and hero of the latest dazzling novel by António Lobo Antunes. Little do we or Rui S. realize how prophetic his whiny lamentation prove...