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"The Return of the Caravels is set in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies dissolve in the 1970s. In a contemporary rejoinder to Camoes's conquest epic The Lusiads, Antunes imagines the heroes of Portuguese exploration beached amid the detritus of the empire's collapse. Or is it the modern colonials - with their mixed-race heritage and uneasy place in the "fatherland" - who have somehow ended up in sixteenth-century Lisbon?
A white colonial who has married a mulatto woman finds that his papers only entitle him to reside in a ratty bordello, where his wife is forced into whoring at a discotheque. A man named Luis, who has returned from Angola in a ship where Cervantes ripped off all of his material for a "foolish" novel called Quixote, waits on the Lisbon pier with his father's dead body in a casket, as the belongings he shipped home from Africa persistently fail to arrive.
And as Vasco da Gama, relieved he no longer has to heed the princes' orders to go discover things, begins winning ownership of Lisbon piece by piece in crooked card games, four hundred years of Portuguese history mingle - caravels dock next to oil tankers, and the slave trade abuts the duty-free shops."--BOOK JACKET.
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The return of the caravels: a novel
2002, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
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0802117082 9780802117083
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"Originally published in Portuguese under the title As Naus by Publicacaoes Dom Quixote, Lisbon" -- t.p. verso
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