By the rivers of Babylon:

"Incapacitated 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 recalls the villag...

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1. Verfasser: Antunes, António Lobo 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Costa, Margaret Jull 1949- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2023]
Schriftenreihe:A Margellos world republic of letters book
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Zusammenfassung:"Incapacitated 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 recalls the village where he lived as a child near the Mondego River amid the eucalyptus and pines, his parents and grandparents and their tight-knit community of potato farmers and tungsten miners, and the woman he loved--an unexpected polyphony of voices and places sounding in sharp counterpoint to debilitating pain"--
Beschreibung:237 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9780300233414
0300233418

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