ZADUPIA - ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES

"Zadupia" is a novel about war, loneliness, disappointment, and anger. António Lobo Antunes does not spare the reader - his prose is intense, full of emotions, and provokes reflection. He ruthlessly and brutally honestly settles accounts with the Portuguese colonial past. He tells about the war in Angola like no one else - without embellishment, without pathos, from the perspective of a man thrown into the machinery of a soulless dictatorship. It is an autobiographical novel, but at the same time representative of an entire generation of Portuguese.

• Intense and dense prose, full of emotions and reflections.
• Brutal reckoning with the Portuguese colonial past.
• Autobiographical perspective of a man thrown into the machinery of a soulless dictatorship.
• Realistic picture of the war in Angola, without embellishment and pathos.
• Universal story about loneliness, disappointment, and anger.
• Moving portrait of a war-torn generation.
• Insightful analysis of the psychological consequences of the conflict.

Antunes not only reconstructs the reality of the African fronts, but also describes the return of soldiers to their homeland, whose lives have been forever marked by war. The conflict, lasting almost 14 years, left its mark on the entire society. About one million men fled abroad to avoid being drafted into the army. More than 8,000 soldiers, 1,000 white civilians and at least 100,000 blacks died, but no one counted the wounded and mentally crippled. Antunes belonged to this group and could not return to everyday life. His marriage broke down. Only by combining the experiences from his work as a psychiatrist with his passion for writing did he find a way to settle accounts not only with his own past, but also with the myths of a nation that for decades lived fed by propaganda illusions.

"Zadupia" is a novel that stays in the reader's memory for a long time. It is a read for those who are not afraid to face difficult topics and seek deep emotions and reflections in literature. António Lobo Antunes, with extraordinary strength and authenticity, shows us a world in which the boundaries between good and evil, truth and falsehood, blur, and man is left alone with his fears and disappointments. It is a book that provokes thought and forces us to ask difficult questions about the meaning of life and human existence.

Noir sur Blanc publishing house presents this extraordinary novel in hardcover, with 226 pages and a format of 152x243 mm. Year of publication: 2025.