Elizabeth Lowe

The author's twenty-fifth novel is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002), when Angolan factions took bloody revenge on Portuguese colonists who had not fled the country. António Lobo Antunes delves into this traumatic period of Angola's history through the fragmented memories and dreams of a broken woman. It is the story of Cristina, admitted to a psychiatric clinic in Lisbon.

 

In this 2017 novel, translated by Elizabeth Lowe into English as The Last Twist of the Knife, Brazilian writer João Almino establishes a series of difficult hurdles for himself, almost as if purposely creating nearly impossible, Oulipo-like challenges.

-Douglas Messerli, Rain Taxi

https://www.raintaxi.com/the-last-twist-of-the-knife/

Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds -- the island home of S o Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada -- experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean family of nine.

A story told by a silicone doll and a Japanese salary-man, voices rising out of the cacophony of Tokyo, which the author describes as "walking into a nightmare."