num_pages: 342
description: The second installment in Tavaress 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 Buchmanns ambition is no longer content with medicine and he finds himself rising through the ranks of his countrys 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 Gonalo M. Tavaresthe Portuguese novelist hailed by Jos Saramago as the greatest of his generationhere 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.(Portuguese Literature Series)
language: English
title: Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press