| Pereira Maintains Contributor(s): Tabucchi, Antonio (Author), Creagh, Patrick (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811226174 ISBN-13: 9780811226172 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.45 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira's apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of his own inhibitions, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism--and this arc is "one of the most intriguing and appealing character studies in recent European fiction" (Kirkus). |
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."Creagh, Patrick: - Patrick Creagh (1930-2012) was a British poet and translator. |