{"product_id":"the-inquisitors-manual-paperback","title":"The Inquisitors' Manual - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Zenith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn international best-seller and the novel that established Antune's reputation in Europe, \u003ci\u003eThe Inquistor's Manual\u003c\/i\u003e is a harrowing indictment of Portuguese fascism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes is one of the great European literary masters, a writer of whom\u003ci\u003e The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e has said, \"When Antunes is in full heat . . . he reads like William Faulkner or Céline.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Inquistors' Manual\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the decadence not just of a family but of an entire society--a society morally and spiritually vitiated by four decades of totalitarian rule. Senhor Francisco, a once powerful state minister and a personal friend of the Portuguese dictator Salazar, is incapacitated by a stroke, and as he spends his last days in a nursing home in Lisbon, he reviews his life and his loves. His son Jo'o, raised by the housekeeper, grows up to be good-hearted but totally inept, so that his ruthless in-laws easily defraud him of his father's farm. The minister's daughter, Paula, whom he had by the cook and who was raised by a childless widow in another town, is ostracized after the Revolution due to her father's position in Salazar's regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe emotional turmoil enveloping Francisco's family finally catches up with him when the Revolution ends the forty-two years of the dictatorship, and the old regime tumbles like a castle of cards. Senhor Francisco, more paranoid than ever, remains a large but empty shadow of his seeming omnipotence. Drawing comparison to \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Inquistors' Manual\u003c\/i\u003e is a fierce exploration of life under one of the worst dictators of the last century, and a modern classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntónio Lobo Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e, who was called \"one of Portugal's pre-eminent writers\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, was born in Lisbon in 1942. The son of a physician, he too became a doctor and then spent four years in the Portuguese army during the Angolan war. His fictional \"memoir\" of that war, \u003ci\u003eSouth of Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e, was internationally praised and followed by other widely translated and much-honored novels, including \u003ci\u003eAct of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFado Alexandrino\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExplanation of the Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Order of Things\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 8.34 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53465520406835,"sku":"9780802140524","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/BrYfLcdhB79780802140524.webp?v=1781271496","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/the-inquisitors-manual-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}