{"product_id":"requiem-a-hallucination-by-antonio-tabucchi","title":"Requiem: A Hallucination By Antonio Tabucchi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished: 01\/07\/2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenres: Fiction - Portugal - Italian - Literature - Italy - Portuguese Literature - Literature - Novels\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" id=\"scope_book_description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, \"our eyes saw things differently\"'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted city\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the city of Lisbon,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebecomes 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\n\u003cp\u003e'Tabucchi is a master of illusion and allusion, and this is a literary puzzle that teases, amuses and provokes'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pdp-spec\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePublisher information\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublisher:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"publisher\"\u003ePenguin Books Ltd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eISBN:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"isbn\"\u003e9780241519318\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNumber of pages:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"numberOfPages\"\u003e96\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimensions:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"height\"\u003e197\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan itemprop=\"width\"\u003e130\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan itemprop=\"depth\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeight:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"weight\"\u003e81 g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLanguage:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"inLanguage\"\u003eEnglish (Language of text), Italian (Original language of a translated text)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Starlight Library","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53287487242553,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"IQD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0951\/4624\/6457\/files\/61VQGyl-5TL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778531271","url":"https:\/\/starlightlibrary.shop\/products\/requiem-a-hallucination-by-antonio-tabucchi","provider":"Starlight Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}