Tabucchi's paean to old Lisbon and to Fernando Pessoa is comic, elegiac, very clever, slightly surreal and hugely enjoyable. One of three new editions of his work.
A new edition of this magnificent, subtle novel of unlikely courage, frailty, love and betrayal in Lisbon, under Salazar's dictatorship. As Diana Athill wrote, reading it is an experience by... read more
A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he... read more