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“antonio tabucchi”

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  • Pereira Maintains

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Patrick Creagh ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by J. C. Patrick ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Requiem

    A Hallucination

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    A private meeting, chance encounters, and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage to Fernando Pessoa.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 Portuguese; it had to be ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Tristano Dies

    A Life

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Harris ...
    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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Message from the Shadows

    Selected Stories

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Janice M. Thresher, Tim Parks, Martha Cooley, Antonio Romani ...
    This new, expanded collection of Antonio Tabucchi's stories collects the best short fiction from the Italian author recognized as one of the masters of the form.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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Stories with Pictures

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Harris ...
    A masterful collection about intimacy, loneliness, and time, each inspired by different works of art, spanning the entirety of the great Italian writer's career.In Stories with Pictures, Antonio Tabucchi responds to photographs, drawings, and paintings from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other European countries. The stories in this collection spring forth from the shadows of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • For Isabel: A Mandala

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Harris ...
    Winner of the 2018 Italian Prose in Translation AwardA 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 metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words.Isabel disappeared many years ago. Tadeus ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Indian Nocturne

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    "An enjoyable, well-crafted little book."—The Complete ReviewTranslated 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. ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Little Misunderstandings of No Importance

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Frances Frenaye ...
    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?The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Letter from Casablanca

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    The eight stories contained in Antonio Tabucchi's Letters from Casablanca introduce to an American audience a rising Italian writer (born 1943) whose intriguing narrative strategies make the reader an active participant in his work. Each story can be seen from at least two perspectives, and each protagonist can be seen as experiencing an objective "reality" or having his own imagined and quite ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Edge of the Horizon

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    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.Late on night, the body of a young man is delivered to the morgue of an Italian town. The next day's newspapers report that he was killed in a police raid, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Woman of Porto Pim

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD