Requiem
a hallucination
$18.42
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2025
Summary
The Ghost of Lisbon: A Requiem for Pessoa
‘My dear friend,’ he said, ‘life is strange and strange things happen in life.’
It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon, and our narrator has an appointment to meet someone by the quayside. But when his guest does not arrive, he spends the day wandering the deserted city, encountering some memorable characters along the way: a disoriented taxi driver, an accordionist, a Seller of Stories, and, finally, the long-awaited ghost of the late, g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241752234 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024175223X |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
| Author: | Antonio Tabucchi, Margaret Jull Costa |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 73g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 7mm |
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About The Author
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa, Italy in 1943. His critically acclaimed novels and short story collections include Little Misunderstandings of No Importance, Requiem- A Hallucination and Pereira Maintains, which won the Premio Campiello, Premio Viareggio and the Aristeion Prize amongst others. Tabucchi was professor at the University of Siena, and also taught at Bard College in New York, the Ecole de Hautes Etudes and the Coll ge de France in Paris. He died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012.
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