By the Rivers of Babylon

by Margaret Jull Costa and António Lobo Antunes

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300233418
• ISBN13: 9780300233414
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.4" x 7.6"