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The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro - Paperback

by Antonio Tabucchi
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Availability:In StockContributor:Antonio Tabucchi, J. C. Patrick (Translator)Publish date:2005-02-01Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811216043ISBN-10:811216047UPC:9780811216043Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, HistoricalSize:7.98 x 5.04 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SCCXKZ5ECN
Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811216043ISBN-10:811216047UPC:9780811216043Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, HistoricalSize:7.98 x 5.04 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SCCXKZ5ECN
Tabucchi, Antonio: - 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."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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Antonio Tabucchi, J. C. Patrick (Translator)

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Antonio Tabucchi

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