{"product_id":"the-natural-order-of-things-paperback-1","title":"The Natural Order of Things - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Zenith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom literary master Antóoacute;nio Lobo Antunes, comes a richly textured and multi-vocal tale of two families and the secrets that bind them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Order of Things\u003c\/i\u003e, a diabetic teenage girl in a Lisbon apartment complex is kept awake by the whispered childhood memories of the middle-aged civil servant lover she despises. Her father, once a miner in South Africa, is now reduced to dreams of \"flying underground.\" An officer in the pre-revolutionary army is tortured in prison on charges of conspiracy, plagued by memories of his illegitimate sister, locked away to live as a ghost in the attic like Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre. A secret policeman, who has abandoned his sanity to teach hypnotism by correspondence course, unwittingly holds the key to their secret histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe voices in \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Order of Things\u003c\/i\u003e create a portrait of a disintegrating Portugal and a personal political history that attains the brilliance of Elias Canetti and Nikolai Gogol.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e, who was called \"one of Portugal's pre-eminent writers\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, was born in Lisbon in 1942. The son of a physician, he too became a doctor and then spent four years in the Portuguese army during the Angolan war. His fictional \"memoir\" of that war, \u003ci\u003eSouth of Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e, was internationally praised and followed by other widely translated and much-honored novels, including \u003ci\u003eAct of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFado Alexandrino\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExplanation of the Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Order of Things\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.26 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 16, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51895767400736,"sku":"9780802138132","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/F9vZOwneua9780802138132.webp?v=1782039129","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-natural-order-of-things-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}