The Natural Order of Things

António Lobo Antunes

Translated by Richard Zenith earliest edition we have, 2000 Grove Press, 2000 hardcover 298 pages

"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...

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Richard Zenith 2 printings we hold · 2000–2001 · Grove Press

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The Natural Order of Things paperback · 2001 · Grove Press · 320 pages · 9780802138132
The Natural Order of Things hardcover · 2000 · Grove Press · 298 pages · 9780802116581

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