Pereira Maintains

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811227065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
Tabucchi’s masterpiece “conjures a state between waking and dreaming” (The New York Times) Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira’s apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of his own inhibitions, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism—and this arc is “one of the most intriguing and appealing character studies in recent European fiction” (Kirkus).

Indian Nocturne

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122144X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
"An enjoyable, well-crafted little book."—The Complete Review Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for 1987 is an enigmatic novel set in modern India. Roux, the narrator, is in pursuit of a mysterious friend named Xavier. His search, which develops into a quest, takes him from town to town across the subcontinent.

Declares Pereira

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Requiem

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Antonio Tabucchi's novel Requiem is set in Lisbon on a torrid July day. The unnamed narrator - clearly a persona of Tabucchi himself - awaits a midnight appointment on a quay of the Tagus. His time is filled with a succession of encounters with residents of the Portuguese capital, and with late friends and relations. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem at once becomes a homage to a country and a people and a farewell to the past; requiescat in pace. In all this, the narrator himself remains shadowy, walking in a dream atmosphere. The midnight appointment approaches. The narrator meets at last with another unnamed writer, now long dead, though the evidence points to the great poet Fernando Pessoa. Requiem thus ends as an act of succession, the narrator's claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is of evasive and manifold personalities.

Pereira Declares: A Testimony

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
"One of the most intriguing and appealing character studies in recent European fiction, and easily the best work of Tabucchi's to have appeared in English translation."—Kirkus Reviews Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Portugal, until one day he meets an aspiring young writer and anti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism.

Letter from Casablanca

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, whileas in all of Tabucchi's workblurring genre boundaries. Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.

Tristano Dies

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, “you don’t tell a life…you live a life, and while you’re living it, it’s already lost, has slipped away.” Tristano Dies, one of Antonio Tabucchi’s major novels, is a vibrant consideration of love, war, devotion, betrayal, and the instability of the past, of storytelling, and what it means to be a hero.

The Edge of the Horizon

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811224512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an "unimportant death," now available for the first time in a paperback edition.

The Woman of Porto Pim

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
By Antonio Tabucchi, one of the most renowned voices in European literature and the foremost Italian writer of his generation, The Woman of Porto Pim is made up of enchanting, hallucinatory fragments that take place on the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal. Told by a visiting Italian writer unearthing legends, relics and histories of the inhabitants, the tales shed light on a local restaurant proprietress's impossible love with an Azorean fisherman during WWII, a dazzling whaling expedition of eras past, shipwrecks both metaphorical and real, and a playful look at humankind from the perspective of a whale.