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 ...

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 ...

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...

What does it take to build a modern nation—and what happens when that project fails? By turns wryly absurd, unsettling, and deeply moving, Rashid El-Daif’s novel Paving the Sea narrates a quest for the impossible and the disillusionment with the transformative promises of the nation. At the center of the story is Jurji Zaidan, the real-life intellectual giant of the Arab Nahda, the cultural renaissance that sought to remake the Arabic-speaking world through modern science and secu...

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...

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...

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 utilitari...

In the book, Lobo describes the geography, culture, and people of Ethiopia, as well as the history and politics of the region. He also writes about his encounters with the Ethiopian emperor, Susenyos I, and his interactions with various Ethiopian tribes and communities.One of the most significant aspects of Lobo's work is his account of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which he describes in great detail. He provides insight into the religious practices and beliefs of the Ethiopian people, an...

It's a frigid, icy, wintery Good Friday morning in Toronto. The forces of evil - Satan's army - are preparing for one more attempt at grabbing and destroying the one remaining thorn, from the crown of thorns that Christ bore. The one thorn that stands in the way of evil taking over the world.When the 'end-of-world' and repentance preaching mad-man is suspiciously struck by a speeding truck and dies in Daniel's arms, he passes on the mantle of the Thorn bearer to Daniel. Suddenly a ...

TE KORE Y LA ARQUITECTURA DEL SER FILOSOFÍA, EPISTEMOLOGÍA Y RESISTENCIA MĀORI¿Es el vacío una ausencia o una matriz de potencialidad infinita? Esta obra, escrita por Cristina Lobo y Manuel Rodsua, propone una inmersión profunda en los sistemas de pensamiento māori, desafiando las interpretaciones convencionales para revelar una arquitectura del ser tan compleja como fascinante.A través de un análisis interdisciplinar que combina la metafísica, la ontología política y la hi...

Bullet is a Silver Age inspired superhero romance. After college student Dale DeSouza suddenly develops super speed, he splits his time between fighting villains and courting one of the researchers helping him find out more about his powers.With its combination of thrilling adventure and budding romance, Bullet should equally appeal to everyone from middle aged fans of classic superheroes to teenaged readers of shoujo manga!