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Inquisitors Manual

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1999Holt & Company, HenryISBN 9780805059311
Fiction
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"The Inquisitors' Manual chronicles the decadence not just of a family but of an entire society morally and spiritually vitiated by four decades of totalitarian rule. Senhor Francisco, a once powerful state minister and a personal friend of the Portuguese dictator Salazar, is incapacitated by a stroke, and as he spends his last days in a nursing home in Lisbon he reviews his life and his loves. His son Joao, raised by the housekeeper, grows up to be good-hearted but totally inept, so that his ruthless in-laws easily defraud him of his father's farm. The minister's daughter, Paula, whom he had by the cook and who was raised by a childless widow in another town, is ostracized after the Revolution for her father's position in Salazar's regime.". "The emotional turmoil enveloping Francisco's family finally catches up with him when the Revolution ends the forty-two years of the dictatorship, and the old regime tumbles like a house of cards. Senhor Francisco, more paranoid than ever, remains a large but empty shadow of his once seeming omnipotence."--BOOK JACKET.

Publication Details

Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
Published
1999
ISBN
9780805059311

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.[

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