An Explanation of the Birds (Antunes, Antonio Lobo)

Name: An Explanation of the Birds (Antunes, Antonio Lobo)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780802134202

by Unknown Author

261 pages1995Grove PressISBN 9780802134202

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ONE OF THESE DAYS I'll beach right here, devoured by fish like a dead whale," he told me on the street in front of the clinic while looking at the neighborhood's sad and faded buildings, the unlit neon signs like monograms on a napkin, the glittery remnants of season's greetings in the windows, and a single dog, this January morning, nosing through the remains of a demolished row house: dust, rubble, wood scraps, and soulless shards of tile.

Publication Details

Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1995
Pages: 261
ISBN: 9780802134202

About Unknown Author

António Lobo Antunes (nascido a 1 de Setembro de 1942) é um romancista português e médico reformado. Foi nomeado candidato ao Prémio Nobel da Literatura. Entre outros prémios, recebeu o Prémio Camões (2007), o mais prestigiado da literatura portuguesa, e a Ordem das Artes e Letras da República Francesa. Publicou mais de vinte romances, entre os quais se destacam *Fado Alexandrino* (1983), *As Naus* (1988) e *O Manual dos Inquisidores* (1996). As suas obras foram traduzidas para mais de trinta línguas. ---------- António Lobo Antunes (born 1 September 1942) is a Portuguese novelist and retired medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among other awards, he has received the Camões Prize (2007), the most prestigious in Portuguese literature, and the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. He has published more than twenty novels, among the most important are *Fado Alexandrino* (1983), *As Naus* (1988) and *O Manual dos Inquisidores* (1996). His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.[