An Explanation of the Birds (Antunes, Antonio Lobo)
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: August 7, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780802134202
Subjects: Modern fiction; Portuguese (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; European - Spanish & Portuguese; General; Fiction / Literary
First sentence: 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.