{"product_id":"by-the-rivers-of-babylon","title":"By The Rivers Of Babylon","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Translated to English by Margaret Jull Costa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“One of the essential writers of our tormented times.”—Alberto Manguel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIncapacitated 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBy the Rivers of Babylon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbour Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e (1942–2026), born in Lisbon and trained as a psychiatrist, is the prizewinning author of more than thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eFado Alexandrino\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Inquisitors’ Manual\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Splendor of Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhat Can I Do When Everything's on Fire? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Jull Costa\u003c\/b\u003e has been a literary translator for over thirty years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLength: 248 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"productDetails_techSpec_section_1\" class=\"a-keyvalue prodDetTable\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-0300271607\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"SAUDADE TORONTO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49004499599583,"sku":null,"price":34.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1251\/1761\/files\/FullSizeRender_188e0327-253a-4b5c-a380-df65c5872690.jpg?v=1776885807","url":"https:\/\/saudadetoronto.com\/products\/by-the-rivers-of-babylon","provider":"SAUDADE TORONTO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}