The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame, reflecting on the uncertainties, memories, mistakes and mysteries of life
Eleven short stories pivoting 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 a decisive role in the protagonists lives? Set in Paris, Lisbon, Madras and New York and blended with the author s wonderfully intelligent imagination, Tabucchi reflects on the elemental aspects of the human experience, exploring grief, uncertainty, adventure, memory and love.
One of the most admired Italian writers of his generation The Times
About the Author
Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms
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