Description
From the author The New Yorker hails as "one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere."
About the Author
Antonio Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1942. He began writing as a child, but at his father's wishes, went to medical school instead of pursuing a career in writing. After completing his studies, Antunes was sent to Angola with the Portuguese Army. It was in a military hospital in Angola that Antunes first became interested in many of the subjects of his novels. Antunes lives in Lisbon, where he continues to write and practice psychiatry. A. G. Porta was born in Barcelona in 1954. He gained prominence in the Spanish literary world when he won the Ambito Literario de Narrativa Prize in 1984 for a novel written with Roberto Bolano. After a silence of over ten years-which Bolano claimed that Porta spent reading and rereading Joyce-he began publishing novels to widespread critical acclaim.
Reviews
"This novel is one of Antunes's best." - Three Percent, University of Rochester
Book Information
ISBN 9781564784230
Author Antonio Lobo Antunes
Format Paperback
Page Count 535
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
Weight(grams) 589g
Dimensions(mm) 200mm * 139mm * 33mm