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 his tale to anyone who listens. In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, Lobo Antunes weaves words into an exhilarating tapestry, imbuing his prose with the grace and resonance of poetry. The narrator, freshly returned to Lisbon after his hellish tour of duty in Angola, confesses the traumas of his memory to a nameless lover. Their evening unfolds like a fever dream, as Lobo Antunes leaps deftly back and forth from descriptions of postdictatorship Portugal to the bizarre and brutal world of life on the front line. The result is both tragic and absurd, and belongs among the great war novels of the modern age.

Product Description: Las idas y venidas de ocho jÁvenes delincuentes son descritas por varios narradores que toman la palabra alternativamente y que ponen de manifiesto los tremendos contrastes sociales y raciales entre los diferentes estratos de Lisboa...read more

The Portugese author chronicles the decline of empire and society in this vivid, powerful work of fiction, moving from the sufferings of an army officer being tortured for conspiracy to a former miner who dreams of 'flying underground' in Mozambique. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Diez voces monologan desde la soledad y el dolor, desde la desesperacion y el miedo, desde la enfermedad y la locura. Diez personas enfrentadas con la muerte. Porque de la muerte trata esta novela que sobrecoge desde la primera pagina, con un lenguaje que su autor convierte en un escalpelo con el que se introduce en el alma humana hasta limites dificilmente imaginables, mezclando tiempos, intercalando la historia de su pais con las de sus personajes, en un torbellino de recuerdos y fantasias que toman cuerpo en una prosa bellisima, minuciosa y lenta unas veces, vertiginosa y sarcastica otras, articulada cuidadosamente para alcanzar su equilibrio entre la ruptura formal y la aparente confusion...read more

Product Description: «Un libro ideal para dar trabajo a los críticos. Yo quería escribir una novela a la manera clásica, que destruyese todas las novelas hechas de esta manera.» António Lobo Antunes

In an exploration of the limits of identity and its dissolution on the borders between life and death, a man recalls his parents, a transvestite and the woman who tried to remain close to both father and son as their lives diverged.

Product Description: António Lobo Antunes se adentra en el mundo marginal y desconocido del travestismo, la homosexualidad y la drogadicción para narrarnos la historia de una familia llena de conflictos y rupturas, a través de los recuerdos de Paulo, un joven que creció bajo la tutela de un padre travesti y una madre alcohólica...read more

Set in Lisbon in the 1970s during the dissolution of Portugal's African colonies, a stunning novel combines Portuguese history with the unforgettable tale of Vasco da Gama who, along with his band of fellow heroes, starts to reclaim Lisbon by winning it, piece by piece, in fixed card games. Reprint.

Set in Lisbon in the 1970s during the dissolution of Portugal's African colonies, a stunning novel combines Portuguese history with the unforgettable tale of Vasco da Gama who, along with his band of fellow heroes, starts to reclaim Lisbon by winning it, piece by piece, in fixed card games.