{"product_id":"requiem-antonio-tabucchi-9780811212700","title":"Requiem: A Hallucination","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this enchanting and evocative novel, Antonio Tabucchi takes the reader on a dream-like trip to Portugal, a country he is deeply attached to. He spent many years there as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. He even wrote \u003cem\u003eRequiem\u003c\/em\u003e in Portuguese; it had to be translated into Italian for publication in his native Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eRequiem\u003c\/em\u003e's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. But, it turns out, not twelve noon, twelve midnight, so he has a long time to while away. As the day unfolds, he has many encounters--a young junky, a taxi driver who is not familiar with the streets, several waiters, a gypsy, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel, an accordionist, in all almost two dozen people both real and illusionary. Finally he meets The Guest, the ghost of the long dead great poet Fernando Pessoa. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, and even a bit of a cookbook, \u003cem\u003eRequiem\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antonio Tabucchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081121270X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811212700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 5.63w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/1994 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/18\/1994 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/1994 pg. 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/04\/2015 pg. 63","brand":"Antonio Tabucchi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926340239615,"sku":"9780811212700","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_55dd81d0-e0df-4ee1-959d-34ee850dc336.jpg?v=1681082528","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/requiem-antonio-tabucchi-9780811212700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}