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He is the brother of joao lobo antunes and manuel lobo antunes. The inquisitors manual by antonio lobo antunes, richard. This was a complex book written as the free flowing thoughts of a man who is extremely cynical and frustrated with people. The splendor of portugal antonio lobo antunes antunes. At the age of seven, antonio lobo antunes decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to medical school he is a psychiatrist. Knowledge of hell by antonio lobo antunes goodreads. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. When he wanted to study psychiatry he went to study at a london hospital, solely because that is where somerset maugham had worked.
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