Fado Alexandrino (Antunes, Antonio Lobo)

Name: Fado Alexandrino (Antunes, Antonio Lobo)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780802134219

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497 pages1995Grove PressISBN 9780802134219

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AMID his colleagues, dragging his bag, he went out of the faded barracks building and immediately made out on the other side of the grating, on the sidewalk, a kind of sea monster of faces, bodies, and hands that was quivering, waiting for them in the ashen noontime of Encarnacao where traffic lights floated randomly, hanging from the mist like fruits of light.

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Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1995
Pages: 497
ISBN: 9780802134219

About Unknown Author

António Lobo Antunes (nascido a 1 de Setembro de 1942) é um romancista português e médico reformado. Foi nomeado candidato ao Prémio Nobel da Literatura. Entre outros prémios, recebeu o Prémio Camões (2007), o mais prestigiado da literatura portuguesa, e a Ordem das Artes e Letras da República Francesa. Publicou mais de vinte romances, entre os quais se destacam *Fado Alexandrino* (1983), *As Naus* (1988) e *O Manual dos Inquisidores* (1996). As suas obras foram traduzidas para mais de trinta línguas. ---------- António Lobo Antunes (born 1 September 1942) is a Portuguese novelist and retired medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among other awards, he has received the Camões Prize (2007), the most prestigious in Portuguese literature, and the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. He has published more than twenty novels, among the most important are *Fado Alexandrino* (1983), *As Naus* (1988) and *O Manual dos Inquisidores* (1996). His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.[