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The Land at the End of the World(1st Edition)
A Novel
by António Lobo Antunes, Margaret Jull Costa
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07776-6, ISBN: 0-393-07776-4

"One of the twentieth century's most original literary voices delivers a haunting and heartrending meditation on the absurdities of love and war.Considered to be António Lobo Antunes's masterpiece, The Land at the End of the World--now in a new and fully restored translation by acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa--recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war, who, like the Ancient Mariner, will tell ..."

The Splendor of Portugal(1st Edition)
(Portuguese Literature Series)
by António Lobo Antunes, Rhett Mcneil
Paperback, 535 Pages, Published 2011 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-423-0, ISBN: 1-56478-423-1

"From the author The New Yorker hails as “one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere.” The Splendor of Portugal’s four narrators are members of a once well-to-do family whose plantation was lost in the Angolan War of Independence; the matriarch of this unhappiest of clans and her three adult children speak in a nightmarish, remorseless gush to give us the details of their grotesque family life. Like a c ..."

The Fat Man and Infinity(1st Edition)
And Other Writings
by António Lobo Antunes, Margaret J. Costa
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06198-7, ISBN: 0-393-06198-1

"A lyrical, searing work of autobiography, reflection, and fiction, evoking García Márquez's memoirs and Pamuk's Istanbul. António Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, "the heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood―the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in midcentury. His Proust-like memoirs, written o ..."

Knowledge of Hell(1st Edition)
by António Lobo Antunes, Clifford E. Landers
Paperback, 298 Pages, Published 2008 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-436-0, ISBN: 1-56478-436-3

"Like his creator, the narrator of this novel is a psychiatrist who loathes psychiatry, a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola, a survivor of a failed marriage, and a man seeking meaning in an uncaring and venal society. The reader joins Antunes on a journey both real and phantasmagorical as he travels by car from a vacation in the Algarve back to his hated work as a psychiatrist at a Lisbon mental ..."

What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?(1st Edition)
A Novel
by António Lobo Antunes, Gregory Rabassa
Paperback, 585 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32948-3, ISBN: 0-393-32948-8

"A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António 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 kaleidos ..."

The Splendor of Portugal
(Portuguese Literature Series)
by António Lobo Antunes
Published 2011 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-693-7, ISBN: 1-56478-693-5

"Antunes again proves that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator into the worst excesses of the human animal."

What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?
by António Lobo Antunes
480 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06953-2, ISBN: 0-393-06953-2

"António Lobo Antunes. —Well, Soraia? (—I said I wasn't interested in seeing you, didn't I) and my father was stomping out alegrías, bouncing, stopping, doing a spin for moments he was almost a woman, almost young, the rags were a real dress, ... pinky with the setting of a Libra held by three silver clamps, the messenger boy photographed from an angle beautiful Cristiana bare-shouldered , smiling —The engineer at table nine, Cristia ..."

Pedro Cabrita Reis
One After An, A Few Silent Steps
by Dieter Schwarz, António Lobo Antunes, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Markus Richter, Carre D'art, Museu Colecção Berardo
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by Hatje Cantz
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-2558-3, ISBN: 3-7757-2558-X

"Since the early 1990s, the work of Pedro Cabrita Reis (born 1956) has revolved around the subjects of home and territory, in works based on tables and chairs, doors and windows. The "homelessness" of humanity is a constant of Cabrita Reis' concerns."

Je ne t'ai pas vu hier dans Babylone
(French Edition)
by António Lobo Antunes, Michelle Giudicelli
Paperback, 571 Pages, Published 2009 by Christian Bourgois Editeur
ISBN-13: 978-2-267-02049-6, ISBN: 2-267-02049-1

"Il doit être minuit parce que les bruits, ceux du jardin, ceux de la maison et ceux de ma femme qui a fait partir les chiens en les fouettant légèrement avec une branche. - Fichez-moi le camp. Elle a attaché la chienne en chaleur dans le garage et je parie qu'elle s'est couchée parce que pas de lumière dans le couloir ni dans la chambre dans laquelle je ne pénètre plus depuis des siècles, je reste ici très loin d'elle avec tout ce silen ..."

Livre de chroniques
Tome 4
by António Lobo Antunes, Michelle Giudicelli
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2009 by Christian Bourgois Editeur
ISBN-13: 978-2-267-02011-3, ISBN: 2-267-02011-4

"« Me voilà assis à attendre que la chronique se décide à venir. Je n''ai jamais d''idée ; je me limite à attendre le premier mot, celui qui entraîne les autres derrière lui. [...] C''est comme chasser des antilopes sur la rive du fleuve : on reste adossé à un tronc jusqu''à ce qu''elles arrivent, en silence, sans parler. Et voilà qu''un petit bruit s''approche : la chronique, méfiante, regarde de tous côtés, avance d''un rien la patte d ..."

Eu hei-de amar uma Pedra(4th Edition)
by António Lobo Antunes
Paperback, 616 Pages, Published 2010 by Editor Dom Quixote
ISBN-13: 978-972-20-2743-4, ISBN: 972-20-2743-3

"ISBN: 9722027434 / 9789722027434 - Erscheinungsjahr: 2004"

Livre de chroniques
Tome 4 (French edition)
by António Lobo Antunes, Michelle Giudicelli, Antnio Lobo
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2011 by Points
ISBN-13: 978-2-7578-1800-8, ISBN: 2-7578-1800-7

"Livre de chroniques : Tome 4"

An den Flüssen, die strömen; Roman ; Aus d. Portug. v. Meyer-Minnemann, Maralde; Deutsch
by António Lobo Antunes, Maralde Meyer-Minnemann, Luchterhand Literaturvlg.
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag
ISBN-13: 978-3-630-87374-9, ISBN: 3-630-87374-X

As Coisas Da Vida(1st Edition)
(Em Portuguese Do Brasil)
by António Lobo Antunes
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2011 by Alfaguara
ISBN-13: 978-85-7962-092-8, ISBN: 85-7962-092-9

"A obra aborda o Autor António Lobo Antunescomo cronista.É justamente este o enfoque do livro As Coisas da Vida que a Alfaguara acaba de lançar no Brasil. Ele fala de si, de relacionamentos e despedidas, num entrelaçamento entre realidade e ficção. Como resultado, cria textos onde trata de pequenas passagens da vida. A obra foi organizadas em sete temas - infância, literatura, relacionamentos amorosos, humor, cenas do cotidiano, guerra e ..."

As Naus(1st Edition)
(Em Portuguese do Brasil)
by António Lobo Antunes
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2011 by Alfaguara
ISBN-13: 978-85-7962-051-5, ISBN: 85-7962-051-1

"As naus' é uma obra que subverte as formas narrativas tradicionais, sobrepõe tempos e figuras históricas para narrar o retorno dos heróis e navegadores portugueses a Lisboa, nos anos 1970, todos homens desiludidos com o fim da malfadada colonização africana. Pedro Álvares Cabral, Luís de Camões, Diogo Cão, Vasco da Gama - esses e outros nomes, inclusive estrangeiros, como Miguel de Cervantes - retornam a Portugal como pessoas comuns, co ..."

Mein Name ist Legion; Roman ; Aus d. Portug. v. Meyer-Minnemann, Maralde; Deutsch; -
by António Lobo Antunes, Maralde Meyer-Minnemann
Hardcover, 444 Pages, Published 2010 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag Gmbh
ISBN-13: 978-3-630-87295-7, ISBN: 3-630-87295-6

"Wie unter einem Brennglas fängt Lobo Antunes in seinem neuesten Roman die sozialen Probleme der Moderne ein, zeigt, was Migration, Entfremdung und der Zusammenprall verschiedener Kulturen für den Einzelnen bedeuten und findet ..."

Sôbolos rios que vão
romance
by António Lobo Antunes, António Bettencourt, Eulália Pyrrait
Paperback, 199 Pages, Published 2010 by Publicacoes Dom Quixote
ISBN-13: 978-972-20-4144-7, ISBN: 972-20-4144-4

"Entre os últimos dias de Março e os primeiros de Abril de 2007, depois de uma operação grave, o narrador, entre as dores e a confusão provocada pela anestesia e pelos medicamentos, recupera fragmentos da sua vida e das pessoas que a atravessaram: os pais e os avós, a vila da sua infância, a natureza da serra os amores e desamores. Como um rio que corre, vamos vivendo com ele as humilhações da doença, a proximidade da morte, e o chamamen ..."

O Meu Nome É Legião(1st Edition)
(Em Portuguese do Brasil)
by António Lobo Antunes, Jan Koolman
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Alfaguara
ISBN-13: 978-85-60281-84-8, ISBN: 85-60281-84-3

"É noite num bairro afastado de Lisboa quando oito garotos, com idades entre 12 e 19 anos, roubam dois carros. Ao alcançarem uma autoestrada, passam a praticar crimes bárbaros madrugada adentro. Gusmão é um policial desiludido. Ignorado pelos colegas e em vias de se aposentar, redige um inquérito sobre oito jovens delinquentes e seus atos bárbaros ao longo de uma madrugada."

Das Handbuch der Inquisitoren
Roman
by António Lobo Antunes, Maralde Meyer-Minnemann, Meyer-Minnemann
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2009 by Btb Verlag
ISBN-13: 978-3-442-73926-4, ISBN: 3-442-73926-8

Que Cavalos São Aqueles Que Fazem Sombra No Mar?(1st Edition)
by António Lobo Antunes
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Alfaguara
ISBN-13: 978-85-7962-000-3, ISBN: 85-7962-000-7

"Neste livro, Lobo Antunes narra a gradual dissolução de uma numerosa família, dona de propriedades de terra, que foi perdendo tanto os bens materiais como a integridade de seus laços mais íntimos. Sua descrição toca nos conflitos de uma família que, ao longo de gerações, esconde segredos e desilusões que levaram à sua ruína. Conta os dramas de cada um dos filhos - Beatriz, que passou por dois casamentos infelizes; Francisco, um homem ra ..."