{"product_id":"by-the-rivers-of-babylon-hardcover","title":"By the Rivers of Babylon - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntonio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMargaret Jull Costa\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Little prepares one for this extraordinary book, in which each chapter, covering a single day, and lasting a single sentence, offers a teeming stream of consciousness. . . . Even pain is alive, and alive is the word for this book, alive and enduring.\"-- Michael Autrey, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, António, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital enduring the humiliations of severe illness. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits fragments of his life and the people who passed through it. He recalls the village where he lived as a child near the Mondego River amid the eucalyptus and pines, his parents and grandparents and their tight-knit community of potato farmers and tungsten miners, and the woman he loved--an unexpected polyphony of voices and places sounding in sharp counterpoint to debilitating pain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy the Rivers of Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e conjures the past and the present all at once, revealing the power of memory to embolden us in the face of extraordinary suffering. This is António Lobo Antunes's homage to the beauty of a cherished life in its confrontation with imminent death.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Lisbon and trained as a psychiatrist, is the author of more than thirty books. He lives in Portugal. \u003cb\u003eMargaret Jull Costa\u003c\/b\u003e has been a literary translator for over thirty years. She lives in Leicester, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 7.6 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754152853792,"sku":"9780300233414","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/11521978985821de3d6ae0ad8a6645e8.webp?v=1780034537","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/by-the-rivers-of-babylon-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}