Pereira Maintains: A Testimony (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Tabucchi, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811226174 ISBN 13: 9780811226172

Verlag: New Directions, 2017

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Críticas:

A masterpiece of compression.--Moshin Hamid

Tabucchi's prose creates a deep, near-profound and sometimes heart-wrenching nostalgia and constantly evokes the pain of recognizing the speed of life's passing which everyone knows but few have the strength to accept.--Alan Cheuse

Extraordinary novel.--Jonathan Lee

Pereira Maintains is small only in size. Its themes are great ones--courage, betrayal, fidelity, love, corruption; and its treatment of them is subtle, skillful, and clear. It's so clear, in fact, that you can see a very long way down, into the heart of a flawed but valiant human being, into the sickness of a nation, into the depths of political evil. It's the most impressive novel I've read for years, and one of the very few that feels truly necessary.--Philip Pullman

Reseña del editor:

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).

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• Verlag: New Directions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0811226174
• ISBN 13: 9780811226172
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140