A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone’s Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer.The year is 2011, and our aging narrator has returned to Alto da Vigia to say goodbye to the house where her family spent summers during her childhood. Divided into three sections, one for ...

António Lobo Antunes’s twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissão das Lágrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11, 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a combination of ethnic tensions and international pressures rendered Angola’s hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola was left with both economic and social difficulties which translated into a power struggle betwee...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to India.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from marvelling at the carving-covered Sun Temple in Konark, to drifting through the basilicas of Old Goa near Panaji, and grazing the streets after dark at the Sarafa Bazar food market in Indore.Build a trip to remember with Lonely P...

Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes’s Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal.Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-wing Salazarist faction ...

The Splendor of Portugal's four narrators are members of a once well-to-do family whose plantation was lost in the Angolan War of Independence; the matriarch of this unhappiest of clans and her three adult children speak in a nightmarish, remorseless gush to give us the details of their grotesque family life. Like a character out of Faulkner's decayed south, the mother clings to the hope that her children will come back, save her from destitution, and restore the family's imagined...

A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner).The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde—a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populat...

"Perto da Cidade principal da Lusitânia está uma graciosa Aldeia que com igual distância fica situada à vista do mar Oceano, fresca no verão, com muitos favores da natureza, e rica no estio e inverno com os frutos e comodidades que ajudam a passar a vida saborosamente; porque, com a vizinhança dos portos do mar por uma parte e da outra com a comunicação de uma ribeira que enche os seus vales e outeiros de arvoredos e verdura, tem em todos os tempos do ano o que em diferentes lugares costum...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to South India & Kerala.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from beach-hopping around some of Goa's quieter strands, to stretching into the day with ocean-view yoga classes in beachy Varkala, and tucking into the perfect biryani in the famous food-tastic city of Hyderabad.Build a trip to remembe...

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a “natural law” philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to classical antiquity, has profoundly shaped Western ethics and law and is enjoying an exciting renaissance. While compatible with much in the ethical thought of the great religions, it is grounded in reason, not religion. In contrast to the currently dominant bioethical theories of utilitarianism and...

The benefits of a programmatic approach to apartment development cannot be overstated. Based on proven principles, this guide gives the reader the basis of a successful business plan designed from the ground up and one that accounts for today's fast-changing market and social conditions.Historically, multifamily development has created the best opportunity for the developer seeking both short-term capital gains and longer-term wealth creation. Developers, especially first-time deve...

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