António Lobo Antunes

Edition en langue portugaise

Os cus de Judas

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.

romance

Memória de elefante

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

Caminho como uma casa em chamas

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

Eulália Pyrrait

Sôbolos rios que vão

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

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

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

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.

What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?: A Novel

Rhett McNeil

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 character out of Faulkner’s decayed south, the mother clings to the hope that her children will come back, save her from destitution, and restore the family’s imagined former glory. The children, for their part, haven’t seen each other in years, and in their isolation are tormented by feverish memories of Angola. The vitriol and self-hatred of the characters know no bounds, for they are at once victims and culprits, guilty of atrocities committed in the name of colonialism as well as the cruel humiliations and betrayals of their own kin. Antunes again proves that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator into the worst excesses of the human animal.

António Lobo Antunes

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