Apocalypse Ship
Regular price
€20,00
Regular price
Sale price
€20,00
/
It is the last day of the millennium: three men and two women bet everything. The odds are not in their favour. If they are unlucky, they lose. Because the world will end at the stroke of midnight. It is the Devil himself who says so. And the Devil, as we all know, never lies.
«It seems like a bit of an over-the-top operation, this business of ending the known world. If you ask me, I think it’s a bit of a shame, really, as it is; this is a good hell, and it always costs someone to leave a workplace of which they hold fond memories. Some people like media-savvy tortures, theatrical ones, massacres in countries with exotic names, medieval tortures, with irons, nail clippers, chainsaws. I am more moderate.»
Rui Zink, born in Lisbon in 1961, is one of the most singular voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. Writer, teacher and intellectual provocateur, he has built a body of work marked by irony, social criticism and the rare ability to transform the everyday into revealing absurdity.
In books such as O Destino Turístico, A Instalação do medo or Hotel Lusitano, he explores the tension between fantasy and reality: humour as a sharp form of thinking.
