The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

Tabucchi, Antonio

ISBN 10: 0811216047 ISBN 13: 9780811216043

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2005

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Book by Tabucchi Antonio

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"The Missing Head is among Tabucchi's most controversial books for its insistence that even in such evolved societies as those of contemporary Portugal and Italy, a kind of lowercase fascism not only continues to flourish but is too often supported by the supposedly anti-authoritarian forces that control the levers of power."

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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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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0811216047
• ISBN 13: 9780811216043
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192