A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers. Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, Antonio, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital endurin...

Award-winning author Antonio 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...