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FLYING CREATURES OF FRA ANGELICO by TABUCCHI ANTONIO
Category: Fiction | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
Hypochondria, insomnia, restlessness, and yearning are the lame muses of these brief pages. I would have liked to call them Extravaganzas . . . because many of them wander about in a strange outside that has no inside, like drifting splinters. . . . Alien to any orbit, I have the impression they navigat ...Show more
For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi
Category: Fiction
A metaphysical detective story about love and existence from the Italian master, Antonio Tabucchi. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a philosophical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of word ...Show more
Indian Nocturne by Antonio Tabucchi
Category: Fiction
'A lot of people lose their way in India ...it's a country specially made for that.' Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. Xavier has been missing for a year, and the only clues to his disappearance lie w ...Show more
Indian Nocturne: New Directions by Antonio Tabucchi
Category: Fiction
"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 h ...Show more
Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And Other Stories by Antonio Tabucchi
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Blended with the author's wonderfu ...Show more
Message from the Shadows - Selected Stories by Antonio Tabucchi; Janice M. Thresher (Translator); Tim Parks (Translator); Martha Cooley (Translator); Antonio Romani (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of ti ...Show more
Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi
Category: Fiction
Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweightjournalist who has failed to noticethe menacing cloud of fascism overSalazarist Portugal, until one day hemeets an aspiring young writer andanti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly risesto heroism.
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh (Translator)
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
Category: Fiction
In the sweltering summer of 1938 in Portugal, a country under the fascist shadow of Spain, a mysterious young man arrives at the doorstep of Dr Pereira. So begins an unlikely alliance that will result in a devastating act of rebellion. This is Pereira's testimony.
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh (Translator); Mohsin Hamid
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
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 ...Show more