A stolen will with thirteen bequests on it is the engine. Nuno Bárbaro de Castro — artifact hunter, grave robber, fake veterinarian, agent of Angolan independence — lifts it from the Military History Archives in Lisbon in 1954 and goes hunting the objects, collecting his ancestor's scattered descendants along the way whether or not they want collecting. Clark grew up in Zimbabwe and lives in Portugal; this is his second novel, fifteen years after The Raw Man, and Europa made it the lead title of its autumn list. Angola, Cuba and Louisiana's Angola prison, held inside one document. Published by Europa Editions, September 10 in the UK and September 22 in North America, 350 pages, $28.
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FIND — the score is ahead of the room.
BENCHMARK IN THE 50 · City of God — nearest on the 50 for the register: a violent century told polyphonically from the inside, with no explanatory frame bolted on for a foreign reader
THE MUSA FAMILY · HEIRWAVE
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