António Lobo Antunes

Edition en langue portugaise

Os cus de Judas

A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone’s Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer.

The year is 2011, and our aging narrator has returned to Alto da Vigia to say goodbye to the house where her family spent summers during her childhood. Divided into three sections, one for each day that she spends at the home, Midnight is Not in Everyone’s Reach unspools in torrents of dialogue and surreal, feverish scenarios.

Over these three days, the dead return to life, time splinters and freezes, and conversations flow from the past into the present and back again, as we journey across the narrator’s corrosive psyche toward our real destination—the place inside herself where the family’s grief-stricken secrets are kept.

Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach

Nearing the end of his life in a Lisbon nursing home, former state minister and friend of Portuguese dictator Salazar ruminates on his inept son, illegitimate daughter, and the Revolution that ended the dictatorship and its regime. Reprint.

The Inquisitors' Manual

Memoria de elefante

romance

Caminho como uma casa em chamas

Primeiro romance de António Lobo Antunes, publicado em 1979. Claramente autobiográfico, a obra desenrola-se em um único dia. Regressado de Angola e separado da mulher e das filhas, o protagonista revela ao longo da narrativa a sua grande mágoa e conflitos em relação à separação e as marcas que lhe deixaram a guerra em Angola.

Memória de elefante

A woman spends a weekend at the family vacation home which has been sold. While at the house she remembers everything that happened there.

Não é meia noite quem quer

Auto dos danados

O manual dos inquisidores

Um livro perturbador sobre a memória - ou a perda da memória. Uma velha actriz luta com a idade e as suas contingências, enquanto as recordações do passado invadem os seus dias.

Para aquela que está sentada no escuro à minha espera

The fate of two families are tied to the history of Portugal in this novel that spans the globe from Mozambique to Lisbon.

The Natural Order of Things

Explicação dos pássaros

Dünyanın Sonundaki Yer

Diccionario da linguagem das flores

Clifford E. Landers

The narrator of this stark and elegantly translated novel is a psychiatrist named Antnio Lobo Antunes, returning from vacation to his loathed job at Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Lisbon. Over the course of the trip, the narrator's mind ranges over the monstrosities he encountered in the colonial wars in Angola in the 1970s and in his work; through the layering of memories, he draws parallels between the destruction of the war and the questionable care offered to the mentally ill.

Knowledge of Hell

William Faulkner

Ana Maria Chaves

O som e a fúria

Eulália Pyrrait

Sôbolos rios que vão

Written in chronicle form over the course of more than three decades, an account of the Nobel Prize short-listed candidate's life explores his childhood in class-minded, mid-twentieth-century Lisbon; the ways in which war shaped his writings; and his losses of loved ones. 15,000 first printing.

And Other Writings

The Fat Man and Infinity

Searching for his own identity in the kaleidoscopic, drug-influenced nightclub milieu of Lisbon's demimonde, the son of a legendary transvestite also evaluates the lives and deaths of his father and his father's lover. Original.

António Lobo Antunes

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