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Books by Antonio Lobo Antunes
  | | The Inquisitors' Manual(Reprint) by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Richard Zenith, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2004 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4052-4, ISBN: 0-8021-4052-1 "Like a Portuguese version of As I Lay Dying, but more ambitious, Antonio Lobo Antunes's eleventh novel chronicles the decadence not just of a family but of an entire society - a society morally and spiritually vitiated by four decades of totalitarian rule. In this his masterful novel, Antonio Lobo Antunes, "one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere, renders the turpitude of an entire society through an impasto ..." |
 | | Act of the Damned(Reprint) by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Richard Zenith Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 1996 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3476-9, ISBN: 0-8021-3476-9 "As the socialist revolution closes in, a once-wealthy Portuguese family is accused of "economic sabotage." They must escape across the border to Spain, then on to Brazil -- but the family is bankrupt, financially and spiritually. The patriarch, Diogo, lies dying, while his rapacious offspring rifle through his belongings, searching for his will. He remembers with bitterness and resignation his foolish marriage to his brother's beautiful ..." |
 | | Warning to the Crocodiles (Portuguese Literature) by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Rhett Mcneil Paperback, 377 Pages, Published 2017 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-943150-13-7, ISBN: 1-943150-13-3 "Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes’s Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal. Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-win ..." |
 | | Warning to the Crocodiles by Antonio Lobo Antunes 326 Pages, Published 2021 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-367-9, ISBN: 1-62897-367-6 "Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-wing Salazarist faction ..." |
 | | Commission of Tears by Antonio Lobo Antunes Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1-943150-35-9, ISBN: 1-943150-35-4 |
 | | Buenas Tardes a Las Cosas De (Spanish Edition) by Lobo Antunez, Antonio Lobo Antunes Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2004 by Random House Mondadori ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-9957-3, ISBN: 1-4000-9957-9 |
 | | The Inquisitors' Manual(1st Edition) by Richard Zenith, Antonio Lobo Antunes Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 2002 by Grove Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1732-8, ISBN: 0-8021-1732-5 "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." |
 | | The Inquisitors Manual by Antonio Lobo Antunes Hardcover, Published 2002 by Owl Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5932-8, ISBN: 0-8050-5932-6 "Senhor Francisco, a once powerful state minister and a personal friend of the Portuguese dictator Salazar, is incapacitated by a stroke. As he lies dying in a Lisbon nursing home he reviews his life and his loves. The emotional turmoil enveloping Francisco's family finally catches up with him when the Carnation Revolution severs the dictatorship and the old regime tumbles. Beset by paranoia, Senhor Francisco remains a large but empty sh ..." |
 | | The Return of the Caravels(1st Edition) by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Gregory Rabassa, Trans Gregory Robassa Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1708-3, ISBN: 0-8021-1708-2 "Called "hallucinatory and lyrical" (Publishers Weekly), The Return of the Caravels -- selected as a New York times Summer Reading title -- is a powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, "the greatest living Portuguese writer" (Vogue). It is set in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies gain their independence in the mid-1970s. In a contemporary response to Camoe ..." |
 | | The Natural Order of Things(1st Edition) by Richard Zenith, Antonio Lobo Antunes Hardcover, 298 Pages, Published 2000 by Grove Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1658-1, ISBN: 0-8021-1658-2 "A novel the Los Angeles Times Book Review called "a work of poetic and erotic genius from a master navigator of the human psyche", The Natural Order of Things is a tale of two families and the secrets that bind them. The voices of his characters -- an army officer being tortured in prison on charges of conspiracy; an elderly man, once a miner in Mozambique, now reduced to dreams of "flying underground"; a diabetic teenage girl and the m ..." |
 | | The Inquisitors Manual by Antonio Lobo Antunes Published 1999 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5931-1, ISBN: 0-8050-5931-8 |
 | | The Natural Order of Things by Antonio Lobo Antunes Hardcover, Published 1998 by Henry Holt & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5760-7, ISBN: 0-8050-5760-9 |
 | | Grand Street 66 Secrets (Fall 1998) by Christopher Hein, Editor-Jean Stein, Editor-Pablo Conrad, Editor-Walter Hopps, Contributor-Ingmar Bergman, Peter Brook, Joseph Cornell, Antonio Lobo Antunes, Susan Meiselas, Sergei Eisenstein, Giorgio Manganelli, Mark Danner, Mira Schendel, Grand Street, Brook Cornell Bergman Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by Grand Street ISBN-13: 978-1-885490-17-9, ISBN: 1-885490-17-8 "Book by Brook, Peter, Cornell, Joseph, Antunes, Antonio Lobo, Meiselas, Susan" |
 | | Natural Order of Things, the Fat Cat Invest by Antonio Lobo Antunes Paperback, Published 1998 by Owl Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5761-4, ISBN: 0-8050-5761-7 "The Natural Order of Things is a tale of two families and the secrets that bind them." |
 | | Act of the Damned(1st Edition) by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Richard Zenith, Susan Elderkin Hardcover, 246 Pages, Published 1995 by Grove Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1575-1, ISBN: 0-8021-1575-6 "The winner of the Portuguese Writers` Association Grand Prize for Fiction presents a febrile, funny, sometimes shocking story, about the greedy son-in-law of an ailing Portuguese tycoon and his efforts to steal the family fortune. Amazon.com description: Product Description: As the socialist revolution closes in, a once-wealthy Portuguese family is accused of economic sabotage and must escape across the border to Spain. But the patriarc ..." |
 | | Act of the Damned by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Richard Zenith Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1993 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-436-20148-6, ISBN: 0-436-20148-8 |
 | | An Explanation of the Birds(1st Edition) by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Richard Zenith Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1992 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-436-20063-2, ISBN: 0-436-20063-5 "Rui S., a political historian, is unable to accept the circumstances of his life: his mother's death from cancer, his estrangement from his family, his rejection by his first wife and children, his political vacillations and his ambigious feelings for his second wife." |
 | | Fado Alexandrino(1st Edition) by Antonio Lobo Antunes Hardcover, 497 Pages, Published 1990 by Grove Weidenfeld ISBN-13: 978-1-55584-343-4, ISBN: 1-55584-343-3 "On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to rekindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the colonial war that was Portugal's Vietnam. In turn, they tell the stories of their lives before, during, and after the revolution that overthrew the long-lived Salazar dictatorship." |
 | | South of Nowhere by Antonio Lobo Antunes Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1983 by Chatto And Windus ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-2743-5, ISBN: 0-7011-2743-0 |
 | | South of Nowhere by Antonio Lobo Antunes, E. Lowe Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1983 by Chatto & Windus ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-2744-2, ISBN: 0-7011-2744-9 "António Lobo Antunes ... to me with the tranquil patience of a statue (what language would statues speak if they could talk, what sentences would they whisper to the night in the hollow silence of the museum, that sarcophagus with spittoons?), ..." |
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