What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?

by António Lobo Antunes

Book Overview

The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Ant?nio Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde--a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts--is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393329488
• ISBN13: 9780393329483
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.2"