Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique

Tavares, Goncalo M

ISBN 10 : 1564786277 ISBN 13 : 9781564786272

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The second installment in Tavares s acclaimed Kingdom series. In a city not quite of any particular era, a distant and calculating man named Lenz Buchmann works as a surgeon, treating his patients as little more than equations to be solved: life and death no more than results to be worked through without the least compassion. Soon, however, Buchmann s ambition is no longer content with medicine, and he finds himself rising through the ranks of his country s ruling party . . . until a diagnosis transforms this likely future president from a leading player into just another victim. In language that is at once precise, clinical, and oddly childlike, Gonçalo M. Tavares the Portuguese novelist hailed by José Saramago as the greatest of his generation here brings us another chilling investigation into the limits of human experience, mapping the creation and then disintegration of a man we might call evil, and showing us how he must learn to adapt in a world he can no longer dominate.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in 1970. He has published numerous books since 2001 and has been awarded an impressive number of literary prizes in a very short time, including the Saramago Prize in 2005. Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator. His translations include Creole (2002), The Book of Chameleons (2006), My Father s Wives (2008), and Rainy Season (2009), by Angolan novelist José Eduardo Agualusa.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1564786277
• ISBN 13: 9781564786272
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 342