by António Lobo Antunes · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722010078
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«A Ordem Natural das Coisas» is the novel by António Lobo Antunes, published by Dom Quixote in paperback (329 pages, in Portuguese).
The work is part of a narrative cycle devoted to the Lisbon neighbourhood of Benfica and the family home, evoking the author's childhood and adolescence. Its fragmentary, poetic prose addresses memory, family ties and the mark of the past on the present.
Third instalment of the Benfica series; it forms a triptych with «Tratado das Paixões da Alma» and «A Morte de Carlos Gardel» about the Benfica neighbourhood and childhood memory.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, especially twentieth-century Portuguese literature and the work of António Lobo Antunes.
António Lobo Antunes was a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He was awarded the 2000 Austrian State Prize, the 2003 Ovid Prize, the 2005 Jerusalem Prize, the 2007 Camões Prize, and the 2008 Juan Rulfo Prize. Lobo Antunes was repeatedly nominated as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
