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Handmade Lavender blanket with bow detail 

White fine thread blanket with crystal detail 

Written by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Translated to English by Margaret Jull Costa

A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers
 
“One of the essential writers of our tormented times.”—Alberto Manguel, Times Literary Supplement
 
“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, Booklist
 
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.
 
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 António Lobo Antunes’s homage to the beauty of a cherished life in its confrontation with imminent death.

Abour Author

António Lobo Antunes (1942–2026), born in Lisbon and trained as a psychiatrist, is the prizewinning author of more than thirty books, including Fado Alexandrino, The Inquisitors’ Manual, The Splendor of Portugal, and What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire? Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for over thirty years.

Language: English

Length: 248 pgs

Crafted by the skilled Portuguese artisans under Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, this hand-painted serving bowl captures the organic beauty of cabbage leaves, a metaphor for Portugal's rustic traditions. Pair it with coordinating designs to create an eclectic yet elegant table setting.

• Crafted of durable earthenware.
• Embellished with hand-painted design.
• Coordinates with the rest of our Bordallo Pinheiro Cabbage collection.
• Microwave-safe; dishwasher-safe.
• Made in Portugal.

65014837 - 17.5cm  Creme | 0425

65000618 - 17.5cm  Green 0425

Made in Portugal

Crafted by the skilled Portuguese artisans under Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, this hand-painted serving bowl captures the organic beauty of cabbage leaves, a metaphor for Portugal's rustic traditions. Pair it with coordinating designs to create an eclectic yet elegant table setting.

• Crafted of durable earthenware.
• Embellished with hand-painted design.
• Coordinates with the rest of our Bordallo Pinheiro Cabbage collection.
• Microwave-safe; dishwasher-safe.
• Made in Portugal.
• 6" diam., 2" high.
• 13-oz. cap.
  

65000696 Green

65016638 Creme

Made in Portugal

Cabbage leaf with dip bowl, 34cm, in its rough and flat form, could be used as a metaphor for Portugal’s rustic ways, which Bordallo had so many times caricatured. This was a clever way to honour it, placing it on the bourgeois’ tables, where other way it had not been invited.

Distinctive Characteristics: Hand Painted Complements

Product type: Earthenware

Dimensions: Height 100 mm, Width 290 mm, Length 340 mm, Length 13"

Weight without Package: 1.36 kg

65014969 - Cream | 65000608 - Green

Made in Portugal

Bordallo Pinheiro - Cabbage Collection - Dessert/Salad Plates

Available in Green (65000462) & Cream

Material: Earthenware

Dimensions: Diameter 19cm, Height 2.5cm

Care: Dishwasher and Microwave safe.

Made in Portugal

The Cabbage Collection, in its rough and flat form, could be used as a metaphor for Portuguese rustic ways, which Bordallo had so many times caricatured. This was a clever way to honour it, placing it on the bourgeoisê tables, where other way it had not been invited.

Available in Green and White.

Distinctive Characteristics: Hand Painted Complements

Material: Earthenware

Dimensions: Length 265 mm, Width 265 mm, Height 30 mm

Weight without Package 0.57 kg

65000442 - Green

65016700 - White

Care:

Microwave resistance - Products must not be empty when used in a microwave. Always use a handle or an appropriate glove when removing heated earthenware pieces from the microwave as they may be hot.

Dishwasher safe, but should not be left in the dishwasher for long periods of time, after the cycle, as the generated steam can damage the pieces.

Bordallo Pinheiro’s pieces are not resistant to a great thermal variation. Avoid putting very warm pieces in cold places or in contact with cold water with a transition time.

Made in Portugal

Collection Cabbage
Product type Bordallo Pinheiro
Type of Piece Tureens
Product type Earthenware
Height 216 mm
Width 312 mm
Weight without Package 2.295 kg
Length 310 mm

65029472

Handmade in Portugal

PASSION is the basis of our history! The ancestral tradition of know-how, perpetuated for generations. CAIXEIRO olive oil comes from the traditional varieties: Cobrançosa, Madural and Verdeal Transmontana . Made from whole and healthy olives, with adequate maturation, their transformation is done immediately through the extraction process at low temperatures.

Higher grade olive oil obtained directly from olives, solely by mechanical processes.

We are located in Trás-os-Montes in the parish of Santa Maria de Émeres, in the municipality of Valpaços, in a privileged geographical situation between Terra-frio and Terra-Quente between 550 and 750 meters, with perfect conditions for olive oil production, which is reflected in a natural quality and unique characteristics of our oils.

Import from Portugal 500ml

Calve - Piri-Piri Traditional Recipe

Hot Sauce Extract

50ml

Made in Portugal

edited by Helder Macedo and Thomas Earle with illustrations by André Carrilho.

Luís de Camões (1524(?)–1580) lived in a world in transition. The existential pilgrimage recorded in his poetry is a search for something as inde?nable, and as revolutionarily modern, as the pursuit of happiness on earth. In the process, he was a poet of doubt rather than certainty, rupture rather than continuity, immanence rather than transcendence, experience rather than faith and, at the end of a life “scattered in pieces throughout the world”, he found fragmentation instead of the totality he had desired.

His majestic epic poem, The Lusiads, centred on the pioneering voyage of Vasco da Gama to the East, which opened the doors of Renaissance Humanism to the modern world, is as much the celebration of a nation (Portugal) as an autobiographical representation of his own life. C. M. Bowra, in his major work on epic poetry, From Virgil to Milton, characterizes The Lusiads as “the epic of Humanism”. And Schlegel, one of the founders of Romanticism, considers it “the supreme example of epic poetry” and “the only heroic poem of the Modern period”. But it is an ambiguous epic, situated between a past deserving celebration and the vision of a future contaminated by doubt and uncertainty.

Camões’ lyric poetry has been comparatively neglected, but it is certainly no less impressive. Indeed, The Lusiads can be better understood from the perspective of his lyric poetry. And, in translation, both gain by being as close as possible to the original. This bilingual edition provides an ample selection of the poet’s lyric verse complemented by some passages of the epic, avoiding the constrictions of rhyme and metre.

The poetry of Camões helps us to understand not only the time in which he lived but also our own time. (Based on the introduction by Helder Macedo)

Product of Portugal

150g

Casa Betina - Soy Candle Glass, 11oz - Various Scents

Hand poured soy candles made in small batches to maintain product integrity and quality.  Using all natural pure Soy Wax, and blended with essential oils native to the wild fields of Portugal and certified premium fragrance oils.

The candles are free from paraffins, phthalates, parabens, lead, dyes, stabilizers, and UV inhibiters. Using only natural soy wax, a cotton wick, and scented oils (both essential and premium fragrance oils) so they won't overpower you, cause headaches, allergies, and are safe for pets.  A clean, natural burning candle in your home. 

Vessel: Re-usable Glass  3.25"W x 3"H 

Burn time:  about 60+ hours depending on care candle 

Wax & Wick:  premium soy with cotton wick (never any dyes or enhancers)

Includes a beautiful gift box evoking the Portuguese hand painted ceramic tiles. 

Available in various scents:

Pastel De Nata - Cinnamon, Lemon, Tahitian Vanilla perfectly blended

Cherry Blossom Lemon - all-natural lemon and a kiss of sweet cherry blossom essential oil 

Doce Algarve - Top note:  Sweet Almond  /  Mid Note: Lemon

Berry Kiss - Notes: fresh picked strawberries, vanilla

Hand Poured in Toronto

Made by a master potter whose family has been in the business for over 200 years, these pieces mix a contemporary feel with traditional techniques. Wheel-thrown terracotta plates are partly dipped in a white clay slip.

Use this plate just about anywhere that takes your fancy - salad, or a hearty dinner or perhaps  even hung on a gallery wall.

Handmade in Portugal

Care: Hand wash recommended.

Material: Terracotta

Dimensions: 9.5cm Height x  26cm Diameter