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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS REQUIEM - ANTONIO TAB...

'A funny  sad novella about how we got here from there  and how  in our youth  our eyes saw
things differently' The Times A private meeting  chance encounters and a mysterious tour of
Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted city 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. Part travelogue  part autobiography  part
fiction  Requiem 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. 'Tabucchi is a master of illusion and allusion  and this is a literary puzzle that
teases  amuses and provokes' Sunday Telegraph

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