Some may say you’re a dreamer, but you’re not the only one.

Take José Luís Peixoto, for example. The young Portuguese author’s new-to-English novel, The Implacable Order of Things, delves into a magical realism reminiscent of dreams.

Told through myriad voices (including that of a talking trunk) across two generations in a poor Portuguese village, this story treads dark waters. From suicide and seduction to marriage, childbirth and betrayal, the plot never tires. Add a giant, some Siamese twins, and a blind prostitute, and you’ve got one maddening microcosm.

Peixoto’s characters are certainly no lightweights, continually vacillating between pain and passion, bound to a cyclical torment that even Sartre would wince at. (But, hey, maybe that’s because the devil himself lives in town, too.)

Imagine that.

Available online at amazon.co.uk or at your local bookstore.