António Lobo Antunes
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A historical novel about the 1932-68 Salazar regime in Portugal, in which, disabled by a stroke, a former state minister and personal friend of the dictator looks back upon his years of influence, as do his children, his housekeeper, and others who played key roles in his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
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...
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