The Natural Order of Things

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 298. Quarter-bound black cloth over mustard paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine. Gold-flecked, navy endpapers.

Translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith. Originally published as A Ordem Natural das Coisas, by Publicações Dom Quixote, Lisbon, in 1992.

Author's ninth novel, amongst his works he considers 'canonical'. A multi-vocal tale of two Lisbon families, navigating Portugal's turbulent recent history.

A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Lobo Antunes was awarded the 2000 Austrian State Prize, the 2003 Ovid Prize, the 2005 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2007 Camões Prize, amongst many others. "[A] work of poetic and erotic genius from a master navigator of the human psyche". –Los Angeles Times Book Review