The Living and the Rest

“Cross J.M. Coetzee with Gabriel García Márquez and you've got José Eduardo Agualusa, Portugal's next candidate for the Nobel Prize” — Alan Kaufman, author of Matches

A thrilling tale that considers how the mind bends when the known world ends in a storm’s flash

A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year and Winner of the Portuguese PEN Prize

A funny and lively tale about a group of writers stranded at a literary festival turns increasingly ominous as it explores the nature of...