Requiem
€12.15
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780241519318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonio Tabucchi |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.080 |
| Publishing Date | 01/07/2021 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €11.46 |
| Tax | €0.69 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €12.15 |
| Availability | 5 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
''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