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Implacable Order of Things : A Novel by José Luís Peixoto (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385524463
ISBN-139780385524469
eBay Product ID (ePID)64019985
Product Key Features
Original LanguagePortuguese
Book TitleImplacable Order of Things : a Novel
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorJosé Luís Peixoto
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13.4 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-037272
ReviewsPRAISE FOR JOSÉ LUÍS PEIXOTO "José Luís Peixoto is one of the most surprising revelations in recent Portuguese literature." -José Saramago, Selected for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Fall 2008 program "Splendidly demanding... The images Peixoto evokes in helping his characters communicate without words are singular and unforgettable.... Nature appears to prevail as the governing force, and Peixoto's brilliance and power as an artist are precisely in his desire to mimic nature's ability to create and destroy simultaneously." San Francisco Chronicle "José LuÃs Peixoto is one of the most surprising revelations in recent Portuguese literature." José Saramago "Brilliantly rendered episodic tales of rural loss...Peixoto's evocation of pathos is tempered by a keen sense of the absurd. His ironic sensibility shines through beautifully in this translation." Financial Times "Peixoto offers an appealing addition to the genre of rural magical realism…. [A] poignant debut." Kirkus Reviews "Peixoto's bold, incantatory prose is consistently beautiful… simple but also incredibly rich and resonant. ….The external narrator's own wise words are picked up and repeated by the characters, as though these portentous lines, these profound thoughts are out there… like great discovered truths. That even these weighty lines are moving and thought-provoking, rather than pretentious, is further testament to the author's considerable skills." - The Independent (UK) "[The Implacable Order of Things] poses difficult questions and challenges the reader… but the patient reader finds great rewards." The Australian "You read and breathe as if you were downing a bottle of life in one gulp." Le Figaro "'Peixoto comes from the world of poetry and of the theatre. And this can be sensed here. His pages, purified in the lyrical prose that makes them unique, introduce us to a rural space burned by the sun, inhabited by the singing of the cicadas and suspended in a mythical time where each action has a biblical inevitability." Vogue Italia From the Hardcover edition., Selected for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Fall 2008 program "José LuÃs Peixoto is one of the most surprising revelations in recent Portuguese literature." José Saramago "Brilliantly rendered episodic tales of rural loss...Peixoto's evocation of pathos is tempered by a keen sense of the absurd. His ironic sensibility shines through beautifully in this translation." Financial Times "Peixoto's bold, incantatory prose is consistently beautiful… simple but also incredibly rich and resonant. ….The external narrator's own wise words are picked up and repeated by the characters, as though these portentous lines, these profound thoughts are out there… like great discovered truths. That even these weighty lines are moving and thought-provoking, rather than pretentious, is further testament to the author's considerable skills." - The Independent (UK) "[The Implacable Order of Things] poses difficult questions and challenges the reader… but the patient reader finds great rewards." The Australian "You read and breathe as if you were downing a bottle of life in one gulp." Le Figaro "'Peixoto comes from the world of poetry and of the theatre. And this can be sensed here. His pages, purified in the lyrical prose that makes them unique, introduce us to a rural space burned by the sun, inhabited by the singing of the cicadas and suspended in a mythical time where each action has a biblical inevitability." Vogue Italia, Selected for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Fall 2008 program "Splendidly demanding... The images Peixoto evokes in helping his characters communicate without words are singular and unforgettable.... Nature appears to prevail as the governing force, and Peixoto's brilliance and power as an artist are precisely in his desire to mimic nature's ability to create and destroy simultaneously." San Francisco Chronicle "Jose Luis Peixoto is one of the most surprising revelations in recent Portuguese literature." Jose Saramago "Brilliantly rendered episodic tales of rural loss...Peixoto's evocation of pathos is tempered by a keen sense of the absurd. His ironic sensibility shines through beautifully in this translation." Financial Times "Peixoto offers an appealing addition to the genre of rural magical realism.... [A] poignant debut." Kirkus Reviews "Peixoto's bold, incantatory prose is consistently beautiful... simple but also incredibly rich and resonant. ....The external narrator's own wise words are picked up and repeated by the characters, as though these portentous lines, these profound thoughts are out there... like great discovered truths. That even these weighty lines are moving and thought-provoking, rather than pretentious, is further testament to the author's considerable skills." - The Independent (UK) "[The Implacable Order of Things] poses difficult questions and challenges the reader... but the patient reader finds great rewards." The Australian "You read and breathe as if you were downing a bottle of life in one gulp." Le Figaro "'Peixoto comes from the world of poetry and of the theatre. And this can be sensed here. His pages, purified in the lyrical prose that makes them unique, introduce us to a rural space burned by the sun, inhabited by the singing of the cicadas and suspended in a mythical time where each action has a biblical inevitability." Vogue Italia, Selected for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Fall 2008 program "Splendidly demanding... The images Peixoto evokes in helping his characters communicate without words are singular and unforgettable.... Nature appears to prevail as the governing force, and Peixoto's brilliance and power as an artist are precisely in his desire to mimic nature's ability to create and destroy simultaneously." San Francisco Chronicle "José LuÃs Peixoto is one of the most surprising revelations in recent Portuguese literature." José Saramago "Brilliantly rendered episodic tales of rural loss...Peixoto's evocation of pathos is tempered by a keen sense of the absurd. His ironic sensibility shines through beautifully in this translation." Financial Times "Peixoto offers an appealing addition to the genre of rural magical realism…. [A] poignant debut." Kirkus Reviews "Peixoto's bold, incantatory prose is consistently beautiful… simple but also incredibly rich and resonant. ….The external narrator's own wise words are picked up and repeated by the characters, as though these portentous lines, these profound thoughts are out there… like great discovered truths. That even these weighty lines are moving and thought-provoking, rather than pretentious, is further testament to the author's considerable skills." - The Independent (UK) "[The Implacable Order of Things] poses difficult questions and challenges the reader… but the patient reader finds great rewards." The Australian "You read and breathe as if you were downing a bottle of life in one gulp." Le Figaro "'Peixoto comes from the world of poetry and of the theatre. And this can be sensed here. His pages, purified in the lyrical prose that makes them unique, introduce us to a rural space burned by the sun, inhabited by the singing of the cicadas and suspended in a mythical time where each action has a biblical inevitability." Vogue Italia, "José Luís Peixoto is one of the most surprising revelations in recent Portuguese literature." José Saramago "Brilliantly rendered episodic tales of rural loss...Peixoto's evocation of pathos is tempered by a keen sense of the absurd. His ironic sensibility shines through beautifully in this translation." Financial Times
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SynopsisSet in an unnamed Portuguese village against a background of severe rural poverty, THE IMPLACABLE ORDER OF THINGS is told from the various points of view of two generations of men and women, hardened by hunger and toil and driven by a fate beyond them to fulfill their roles in the never-ending cycle of retribution and death. Jose, a quiet sheepherder, sees his happiness crumble when the Devil tells him he is being cuckolded. Old Gabriel offers wise counsel while a different kind of love story develops: Moises and Elias, twins attached at the tips of their little fingers and unable to live without each other, find their tender communion shattered when Moises falls in love with the local cook. And, of course, there is the Devil himself. Love may be a luxury, but there are moments of the greatest tenderness among even the most unlikely lovers. Written with subtle prose and powerful imagery, THE IMPLACABLE ORDER OF THINGS is a novel of haunting beauty, and introduces American readers to the astounding, poetic voice of Jose Luis Peixoto.
LC Classification NumberPQ9316.E59N4613 2007
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