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  • Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach

    by Antonio Lobo Antunes ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Lowe ...
    A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone’s Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer.The year is 2011, and our aging narrator has returned to Alto da Vigia to say goodbye to the house where her family spent summers during her childhood. Divided into three sections, ... Read more

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  • Commission of Tears

    by Antonio Lobo Antunes ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Series series Portuguese Literature
    António Lobo Antunes’s twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissão das Lágrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11, 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a combination of ethnic tensions and international pressures rendered Angola’s hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola was ... Read more

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  • Warning to the Crocodiles

    by Antonio Lobo Antunes ...
    Translated by Karen C. Sherwood Sotelino ...
    Series series Portuguese Literature
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Splendor of Portugal

    Translated by Rhett McNeil ...
    by António Lobo Antunes ...
    Series series Portuguese Literature
    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 ... Read more

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  • Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water

    by António Lobo Antunes ...
    Translated by Jeff Love ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of Europe’s most brilliant authorsAward†‘winning author António Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty†‘seven months in Angola, Lobo Antunes tells the story of a young African boy ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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

    A Novel

    by António Lobo Antunes ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner).The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde—a nightclub ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • By the Rivers of Babylon

    by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Margaret Jull Costa ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writersIncapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, António, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital enduring the humiliations of severe illness. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits fragments of his life and the people who passed through it. He ... Read more

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  • Decision Support Systems XIV. Human-Centric Group Decision, Negotiation and Decision Support Systems for Societal Transitions

    10th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology, ICDSST 2024, Porto, Portugal, June 3–5, 2024, Proceedings

    Edited by Sérgio Pedro Duarte, António Lobo, Boris Delibašić, Daouda Kamissoko ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2024, held in June 2024.The EWG-DSS series of International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST) is planned to consolidate the tradition of annual events organized by the EWG-DSS in offering a platform for European and international DSS communities, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Assessment and Staging of Care for People with Dementia

    The IDEAL Schedule and its User Manual

    by Maya Semrau, Alistair Burns, Antonio Lobo, Marcel Olde Rikkert, Philippe Robert, Mirjam Schepens, Gabriela Stoppe, Norman Sartorius ...
    Assessment and Staging of Care for Dementia: The IDEAL schedule and its user manual is a unique resource containing a global clinical staging schedule for dementia alongside essential, practical information on how to use it. The International Schedule for the Integrated Assessment and Staging of Care for Dementia (IDEAL) schedule assesses a patient's capacity to function in seven domains. These ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Costa Rica

    A Traveler's Literary Companion

    Edited by Barbara Ras ...
    Series Book 1 - Traveler's Literary Companions
    Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country's allure and vitality, its coffee fields and palm groves, cicadas and songbirds, shrouded mountains and blazing savannas, while telling stories unique to Costa Rican life ... Read more

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