The Implacable Order of Things
Subtitle: A Novel
Contributors: Richard Zenith (Translator)
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: August 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780385524469
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General
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.