{"product_id":"the-return-of-the-caravels-paperback","title":"The Return of the Caravels - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, \"a master navigator of the human psyche . . . [with] the voice of Nabokov by way of Cortazar, Gogol by way of Dylan\" (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled \"hallucinatory and lyrical\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Caravels\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies gain their independence in the mid-1970s. In a contemporary response to Camões conquest epic \u003ci\u003eThe Lusiads\u003c\/i\u003e, Antunes imagines Vasco da Gama and other heroes of Portuguese explorations 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? As da Gama begins winning back ownership of Lisbon piece by piece in crooked card games, four hundred years of Portuguese history mingle--the caravels dock next to Iraqi oil tankers, and the slave trade rubs shoulders with the duty-free shops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Caravels\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling and uncompromising look at one of Europe's great colonial powers, and how the era of conquest reshaped not just Portugal but the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370080010463,"sku":"9780802139559","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pAlrrZlKR39780802139559.webp?v=1789150316","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-return-of-the-caravels-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}