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Requiem

By Antonio Tabucchi

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Requiem

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'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, "our eyes saw things differently"' The Times A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted city In the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters - with a young drug addict, a disorientated taxi driver, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel and the ghost of the late great poet Fernando Pessoa - each meeting travelling between the real and illusionary. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality. 'Tabucchi is a master of illusion and allusion, and this is a literary puzzle that teases, amuses and provokes' Sunday Telegraph
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
96
Release Date:
2021-07-01
Publication Date:
2021-07-01
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241519314
ISBN13:
9780241519318
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
80 g
Height:
118 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
13 cm

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