By the Rivers of BabylonA profound and genre defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugals most celebrated writers Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumour, the narrator, Antnio, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital enduring the humiliations of severe illness. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits fragments of his life and the people who passed through it. He recalls the village where he lived as a child near the