Tag Archives: António Lobo Antunes

The Return of the Caravels

A powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, “a master navigator of the…

The Natural Order of Things

“Reads like William Faulkner or Céline . . . bedeviled and lyrical.”—The Boston Globe “A work of poetic and erotic genius.”—Los Angeles Times  From…

The Inquisitors’ Manual

“Antunes creates voices with a scrupulous, authorial neutrality. . . . He also has created a character in Senhor Francisco . . . as…

Fado Alexandrino

An Explanation of the Birds

Act of the Damned

“An exhilarating cacophony of conflicting voices . . . The fury of its rhetoric takes on all but irresistible momentum.” –Kirkus Reviews