Indian Nocturne (New Directions) - Softcover

Tabucchi, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811210804 ISBN 13: 9780811210805

Publisher: New Directions, 1989

Synopsis

"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 him from town to town across the subcontinent.

About this title

About the Author:

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012. Over the course of his career he won France’s Medicis Prize for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem, and the Aristeion Prize for Pereira Maintains. A staunch critic of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, he once said that “democracy isn’t a state of perfection, it has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.”

Tim Parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling Italian Neighbors and An Italian Education. His novels include Europa which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.  His essays have appeared in the The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Parks is also a renowned translator from the Italian and lives in Verona.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0811210804
• ISBN 13: 9780811210805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88