Antonio: the first day of a man's death

A poignant novel about relationships filled with epic scenes of love, pain, friendship, and sex. In his first novel, Antônio: The First Day of a Man's Death, Domingos Oliveira, with his own distinctive style, crafts a narrative of surrender and freedom. A teacher, screenwriter, frustrated writer, a man no longer a boy, Antônio is an unforgettable protagonist, and in the novel's pages he does what every character should: live. He loves, suffers the end of a long marriage, falls in love with Manuela and Nádia—the vertices of a delightful love triangle—writes, fights for recognition, all observed by the specter of his recently deceased friend Eduardo, who doesn't shy away from expressing his opinion and trying to influence Antônio's decisions. Antônio is a book that, while imbued with Domingos's dramatic style, is first-class literature, a book born a classic.