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The Fat Man and Infinity: And Other Writings

By (author) António Lobo Antunes

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António Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, ""the heir to Conrad and Faulkner"" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood—the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in midcentury. His Proust-like memoirs, written over thirty years in chronicle form, pass through the filter of an adult who has known war and pain, and bear witness to the people whom he loved and who have gone into the dark. Stunningly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, in prose that glides like poetry, this is a modern-day chronicle of Portugal's imperfect past and arresting present, seen through the eyes of a master fiction writer, one on a short list to win a Nobel Prize. Readers particularly touched by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes will be drawn to this journey into the heart of one of our greatest living writers.

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Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | WW Norton & Co
Published date | 27 Mar 2009
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 218 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 582g
ISBN | 978-0-3930-6198-7
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / personal memoirs

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Normal Price | R 871.95
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