Winner of the Jose Saramago Literary Award In an unnamed Portuguese village, against a backdrop of severe rural poverty, two generations of men and women struggle with love, violence, death, and'perhaps worst of all'the inescapability of fate. A pair of twins conjoined at the pinky, a 120-year-old wise man, a shepherd turned cuckold by a giant, and even the Devil himself make up the unforgettably oddball cast of The Implacable Order of Things. As these lost souls come together and drift apart, Jose Luis Peixoto masterfully reveals the absurd, heartbreaking, and ultimately bewitching aspects of human nature in a literary performance that heralds the arrival of an astoundingly gifted and poetic writer. From the Trade Paperback edition.
"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."
"Een goedgelovige Portugese herder wordt door de duivel aangespoord om te trouwen met een meisje dat ooit door een reus is verkracht."
"Winner of the Jose Saramago Literary Award In an unnamed Portuguese village, against a backdrop of severe rural poverty, two generations of men and women struggle with love, violence, death, and'perhaps worst of all'the inescapability of fate. A pair of twins conjoined at the pinky, a 120-year-old wise man, a shepherd turned cuckold by a giant, and even the Devil himself make up the unforgettably oddball cast of The Implacable Order of Things. As these lost souls come together and drift apart, Jose Luis Peixoto masterfully reveals the absurd, heartbreaking, and ultimately bewitching aspects of human nature in a literary performance that heralds the arrival of an astoundingly gifted and poetic writer. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
"This novel describes a universe in which the landscape rural Alentejo is mixed with elements of fantasy. In the novel, there is almost no dialogue. The author uses the technique of stream of consciousness. It is a novel where the reader can find aspects of today's world transposed into the novel carefully and excellently portrayed by the characters. Through this novel, as well as others by this writer, the reader can live or relive the emotions that we can hardly find in books, where we can find the strength to be a human at the same time its weakness, the strength with which to establish friendships or relationships and a weakness that can break that bond. It is a journey through the lives of characters who both share moments of joy and moments of sadness and loneliness."
"Dans l'immensité de la plaine de l'Alentejo, des gens simples travaillent, vivent, pensent. José, le berger, personnage central de la première partie du récit, est jusqu'à sa fin tragique, tourmenté par le soupçon de l'infidélité de sa femme. Trente ans plus tard, leurs descendants évoluent dans un temps immuable, un destin lui aussi sans issue."
"An exquisite novel from Portugal's most acclaimed, prize-winning young novelist. In a village in the Portuguese region of Alentejo, against a background of severe rural poverty, Jose Luis Peixoto weaves a mesmerising tale of men and women hardened by hunger and toilm but prey and to jealousy, violence and the overwhelming power of fate."
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