The Implacable Order of Things
, by Peixoto, Jose Luis- ISBN: 9780307388285 | 030738828X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/11/2009
Winner of the Jose Saramago Literary Award A mesmerizing tale from Portugal's most acclaimed young novelist. Set in an unnamed Portuguese village, against a backdrop of severe poverty,The Implacable Order of Thingsfollows two generations of men and women as they struggle with love, jealousy, violence, loss, andmost of allthe inescapability of fate. With subtle prose and powerful imagery, Jose Luis Peixoto delicately weaves together the stories of his oddball cast-including a pair of twins conjoined at the pinky, a supercentenarian, a shepherd turned cuckold by a giant, and even the Devil himself.