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António Lobo Antunes

Works by António Lobo Antunes

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Richard Zenith
Original title: Auto dos danados

Act of the Damned is a portrait of two things; the corrupt ruling class which fattened itself for decades under Salazar and of Portugal’s revolutionary year of 1974-75. (more...)

An Explanation of the Birds [Buy Direct]

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Richard Zenith
Original title: Explicação dos pássaros

Lobo Antunes employs a colloquial, omnivorous language that digests trauma and black comedy and nourishes readers hungry for literature which meets life head on. An Explanation of the Birds is the work of a consummate technician, a shocking artist. (more...)

Fado Alexandrino [Buy Direct]

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Gregory Rabassa

South of Nowhere [Buy Direct]

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Elizabeth Lowe
Original title: Os Cus de Judas

This is a book that came out of, or perhaps exploded out of, Portugal’s colonial war in Africa of the late 60s/early 70s — the struggle Antunes himself called ‘our poor man’s Vietnam’. There’s the explosion of cynicism, (more...)

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