Warning to the Crocodiles

By António Lobo Antunes Translated by Karen C. Sherwood Sotelino ISBN: 9781943150137 Publication Date: 08/28/2021 Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, António 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 has won numerous awards, including Best Novel by the Portuguese Writers Association and the Austrian State Literature Prize. Other Books by António Lobo Antunes Commission of Tears The Splendor of Portugal Enigmas of Spring Reviews “One of the living writers who will matter most” ―Harold Bloom “Lobo Antunes’ sketches are alive with the poetry of