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The Missing Head Of Damasceno Monteiro

Antonio Tabucchi

A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, while—as in all of Tabucchi's work—blurring 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 Lukács and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder.
As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 2000

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The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

Antonio Tabucchi; Fernando Pessoa; Richard Zenith

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Tristano Muore: Una Vita

Antonio Tabucchi

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Autobiografie Altrui: Poetiche a Posteriori

Antonio Tabucchi

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Requiem: A Hallucination

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi's novel Requiem is set in Lisbon on a torrid July day. The unnamed narrator - clearly a persona of Tabucchi himself - awaits a midnight appointment on a quay of the Tagus. His time is filled with a succession of encounters with residents of the Portuguese capital, and with late friends and relations. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem at once becomes a homage to a country and a people and a farewell to the past; requiescat in pace. In all this, the narrator himself remains shadowy, walking in a dream atmosphere. The midnight appointment approaches. The narrator meets at last with another unnamed writer, now long dead, though the evidence points to the great poet Fernando Pessoa. Requiem thus ends as an act of succession, the narrator's claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is of evasive and manifold personalities.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2002

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LA Testa Perduta Di Damasceno Monteiro

Antonio Tabucchi

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Other editions: 1997

Il Sonno Della Ragione: Manifesti Politici Di Andrea Rauch

Antonio Tabucchi; Omar Calabrese; Maurizio Bettini; Andrea Rauch

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Dreams of Dreams/the Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa: And, the Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa

Antonio Tabucchi; Nancy J. Peters

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La Gastrite Di Platone

Antonio Tabucchi

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Marconi, Se Ben Mi Ricordo: Una Piece Radiofonica

Antonio Tabucchi

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Conversazione Con Antonio Tabucchi: Dove Va Il Romanzo

Antonio Tabucchi; Riccardo Scrivano; Paola Gaglianone; Marco Cassini

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Other editions: 1995

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The Cult of Vespa

Antonio Tabucchi; Umberto Eco; Francesco Alberoni; Francois Burkhardt; Sebastiano Vassalli; Omar Calabrese; Maurizio Bettini; Alessandro Baricco; Lina Wertmuller; Tommaso Fanfani

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E Entre a Sombra E a Luz: And between Shadow and Light

Antonio Tabucchi; Marcio Scavone

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Pereira Declares: A Testimony

Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh

Salazar's Portugal in 1938 is part of the menacing cloud that hangs over Europe and Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight, lonely, mostly-retired journalist who doesn't want to think about it. He escapes facing the ominous times by translating 19th-century French stories for the weekly Culture Page he edits for a Lisbon newspaper. Then Pereira meets an appealing young man, Monteiro Rossi, and in a city where the very walls have ears and where those who know what's good for them turn a blind eye to what goes on around them, he is forced to break out of the shell of his own inhibitions. In the process of facing reality and encountering the brutality of an authoritarian state, Pereira becomes a gentle hero the reader will long remember.

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Os ultimos Tes Dias De Fernando Pessoa: Um Delirio

Antonio Tabucchi

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Sostiene Pereira

Antonio Tabucchi

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Frame Cafe

Antonio Tabucchi; Giancarlo Savino

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Gli Ultimi Tre Giorni Di Fernando Pessoa

Antonio Tabucchi

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Avevo Un Appuntamento

Antonio Tabucchi; Hugo Pratt

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Vanishing Point: The Woman of Porto Pim ; The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico

Antonio Tabucchi; Tim Parks

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El Siglo XX, Balance Y Perspectivas ; Seguido De, La Novela, El Problema :Una Conversacion Con Antonio Tabucchi: Una Conversacion Con Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

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L'angelo Nero

Antonio Tabucchi

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Tullio Pericoli: Attraverso Il Disegno

Antonio Tabucchi; Tullio Pericoli; Roberto Tassi; Guido Almansi; Palazzo reale di Milano Sala delle Cariatidi

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The Edge of the Horizon

Antonio Tabucchi

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Un Baule Pieno Di Gente: Scritti Su Fernando Pessoa

Antonio Tabucchi

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