A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death,
and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers
Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator,
Antonio, 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. By the Rivers of Babylon 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 Antonio Lobo Antunes's
homage to the beauty of a cherished life in its confrontation with
imminent death.
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