by António Lobo Antunes · Publicações Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722014120
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«O Esplendor de Portugal» is the novel by António Lobo Antunes, published by Publicações Dom Quixote in paperback (395 pages, in Portuguese).
Three siblings who left Angola fifteen years earlier reunite at Christmas 1995. The meeting awakens memories of their life in the Portuguese colony, marked by social and political changes, in a fragmentary narrative about personal and collective memory.
First edition published in Lisbon in 1997, in the Autores de língua portuguesa collection.
For readers with Portuguese proficiency interested in narratives about colonial memory and the family aftermath of decolonization.
António Lobo Antunes was a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He was awarded the 2000 Austrian State Prize, the 2003 Ovid Prize, the 2005 Jerusalem Prize, the 2007 Camões Prize, and the 2008 Juan Rulfo Prize. Lobo Antunes was repeatedly nominated as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
