Una città di mare che somiglia a Genova, un oscuro fatto di sangue, un cadavere anonimo, un uomo che istruisce una sua privata inchiesta per svelarne l'identità. Ma il procedimento di Spino, il detective della vicenda, non segue una logica di causa/effe
Resoconti di passioni, di stati affettivi, versati nel nulla e dintorni.--«È vero, raccontare è un gioco e io, lo ammetto, amo molto giocare. Il gioco mi ha sempre tentato; ma in questo momento il gioco che più mi tenta è quello del Rovescio. E gli a
In this enchanting and evocative novel, Antonio Tabucchi takes the reader on a dream-like trip to Portugal, a country he is deeply attached to. He spent many years there as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. He even wrote Requiem in Por
Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etrangerfor 1987 is an enigmatic novel set in modern India. Roux, the narrator,is in pursuit of a mysterious friend named Xavier. His search, whichdevelops into a quest, takes him from town to t
Antonio Tabucchi's new novel The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro continues the experiment so successfully begun with his Pereira Declares (New Directions, 1994) -- a European best-seller and winner of the prestigious Aristeion European Literature Prize
A City Lights / Italian Voices Book"Elaborately imagined...mini-catalog of great artists’ dreams and the author’s interpretation of the last three days in the life of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Tabucchi’s rich language and his magical-realist
From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" (TLS).In It's Getting Later All the Time, an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi"internationally acclaimed as th
This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating ins
