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Requiem : a hallucination

Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-20122021
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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.
Main title:
Requiem : a hallucination / Antonio Tabucchi ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2021.
Collation:
112 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9780241519318 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishItalian
BRN:
2526480
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