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Warning to the Crocodiles
Contributor(s): Antunes, Antonío Lobo (Author)
ISBN: 1943150133     ISBN-13: 9781943150137
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: 869.342
Series: Portuguese Literature
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9" (1.35 lbs) 377 pages
 
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Set in the aftermath of the "Carnation Revolution" of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes's Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal.

Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-wing Salazarist faction resisting the country's new embrace of democracy.

Warning to the Crocodiles (Exorta o aos Crocodilos) has won:
- Best Novel by the Portuguese Writers Association (Grande Pr mio de Romance e Novela da Associa o Portuguesa de Escritores) (1999)
- The D. Dinis Prize of the Casa de Mateus Foundation (Pr mio D. Dinis da Funda o Casa de Mateus) (1999)
- The Austrian State Literature Prize (Pr mio de Literatura Europeia do Estado Austr aco) (2000)

Contributor Bio(s): McNeil, Rhett: - Rhett McNeil is a scholar, critic, and literary translator from Texas. He is currently finishing a PhD in Comparative Literature from Penn State University. He has translated novels and short stories by Antônio Lobo Antunes, Enrique Vila-Matas, Gonçalo M. Tavares, João Almino, and A.G. Porta. Rhett also edited and translated a volume of short fiction by the Brazilian master Machado de Assis. His translation of Tavares's Joseph Walser's Machine was long-listed for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award. Rhett currently teaches at Arizona State University.Antunes, Antonio Lobo: - Antonio Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1942. He began writing as a child, but at his father's wishes, went to medical school instead of pursuing a career in writing. After completing his studies, Antunes was sent to Angola with the Portuguese Army. It was in a military hospital in Angola that Antunes first became interested in many of the subjects of his novels. Antunes lives in Lisbon, where he continues to write and practice psychiatry.