The Woman of Porto Pim by Tabucchi, Antonio

The Woman of Porto Pim (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935744740)

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The Woman of Porto Pim by Tabucchi, Antonio

The Woman of Porto Pim

$15.00
The Woman of Porto Pim by Tabucchi, Antonio

The Woman of Porto Pim

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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By Antonio Tabucchi, one of the most renowned voices in European literature and the foremost Italian writer of his generation, The Woman of Porto Pim is made up of enchanting, hallucinatory fragments that take place on the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal. Told by a visiting Italian writer unearthing legends, relics and histories of the inhabitants, the tales shed light on a local restaurant proprietress's impossible love with an Azorean fisherman during WWII, a dazzling whaling expedition of eras past, shipwrecks both metaphorical and real, and a playful look at humankind from the perspective of a whale.

Author: Antonio Tabucchi
ISBN-10: 1935744747
ISBN-13: 9781935744740
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2013
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 06/04/2015 pg. 63
By Antonio Tabucchi
By Antonio Tabucchi
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One of the most beloved writers of his generation, Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon in 2012. A master of short fiction, he won the Prix Médicis Etranger for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem: A Hallucination, the Aristeion European Literature for Pereira Declares, and was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Together with his wife, María José de Lancastre, Tabucchi translated much of the work of Fernando Pessoa into Italian. Tabucchi's works include Little Misunderstandings of No Importance, Letter from Casablanca, and The Edge of the Horizon.

Tim Parks teaches literary translation at IULM University in Milan. He is a literary critic and the author of An Italian Education, The Server, Dreams of Rivers and Seas, and Teach Us to Sit Still. Twice winner of the John Florio Prize for translation, Parks has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Niccolò Machiavelli, Fleur Jaeggy, and Antonio Tabucchi.

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