A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers "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, and alive is the word for this book, alive and enduring."- Michael Autrey, Booklist Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, Antonio, spends his days in ...