| The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro Contributor(s): Tabucchi, Antonio (Author), Patrick, J. C. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811216047 ISBN-13: 9780811216043 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.04" W x 7.98" (0.47 lbs) 192 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): 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." |