António Lobo Antunes
O manual dos inquisidores.
Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. 9722028588 399 pages.
Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.25" x 9.25", and shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
Like a Portuguese version of "As I Lay Dying," but more ambitious, António Lobo Antunes's eleventh novel chronicles the decadence not just of a family but of an entire society - a society morally and spiritually vitiated by four decades of totalitarian rule. In this his masterful novel, António Lobo Antunes, "one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere, renders the turpitude of an entire society through an impasto of intensely individual voices." (The New Yorker)