Learning to pray in the age of technique : Lenz Buchmann's position in the world /
"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, Buchmann'...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Champaign [Ill.] :
Dalkey Archive Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Portuguese literature series.
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| Summary: | "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, Buchmann's ambition is no longer content with medicine, and he finds himself rising through the ranks of his country's ruling party . . . until a diagnosis transforms this likely future president from a leading player into just another victim."--P. [4] of cover. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Portuguese as Aprender a rezar na Era da Técnica by Editorial Caminho, SA, 2007."--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 342 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781564786272 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1564786277 (pbk. : alk. paper) |