The Implacable Order of Things

By José Luís Peixoto

Subjects: LITERATURA, Fiction, fantasy, general, Portuguese fiction, Fiction, Portuguese literature, Village communities, Fiction, general, Portugal, fiction

Description: In a poverty-stricken, rural Portuguese village, two generations of men and women, hardened by hunger, toil, and hardship, are driven by a force beyond themselves to fulfill their assigned roles in an eternal cycle of death and retribution.