{"product_id":"requiem-9780241519318","title":"Requiem","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, our eyes saw things differently'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi''s adopted city\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the city of Lisbon, \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e''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. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part fiction, \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTabucchi is a master of illusion and allusion, and this is a literary puzzle that teases, amuses and provokes * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, \"our eyes saw things differently\" . . . a light summer read with enough weight to stop it blowing away -- John Self * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eReading this is like having a buzzed after-dinner conversation with a mind too brilliant to get into nuts and bolts. And yet the streamlike writing, spliced by endless commas, contains a charm that shines through the monochrome * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully translated ... perhaps his most accessible work to date * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003eIn the narrator's conversations and in his memories of the past, there is created a personal requiem for the old Lisbon, Tabucchi's Lisbon, not the traditional, solemn celebration of the mass for the dead, with its organ music and cathedrals, but the street music of mouth-organs and barrel-organs -- Jack Byrne * Review of Contemporary Fiction *\u003cbr\u003eElegant, cosmopolitan, inventive and disquieting; his writing is, paradoxically, sensuous and economical * Boston Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis imagined world is created with elegance and complexity -- Robert Gray * Publishers Marketplace *\u003cbr\u003eTabucchi's books are economical surreal-comic novellas. There's a cosmopolitan eeriness here -- Amit Chaudhuri * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1991 Italian PEN Prize, this playful bagatelle translated from the original Portuguese, is partly homage to Portuguese culture, partly a mellow autobiographical fantasy * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful, enchanting tribute to the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa ... aptly subtitled, this book brilliantly creates a story that, like a delicious cocktail, most readers will finish in one gulp and will return to savor * Library Journal *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400395465047,"sku":"9780241519318","price":9.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241519318.jpg?v=1730470588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/requiem-9780241519318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}