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| The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro |
Nominated ISBNs: 1860467709 0811213935 |
Find out more about the author on the following websites: An
interview with Antonio Tabucchi
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| Antonio Tabucchi | ||
| Translated from the Italian by J.C. Patrick | ||
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Biblioteca
Municipal do Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal Stadtbuchereien
Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany Galway County
Library, Galway, Ireland Helsingin
Kaupunginkirjasto, Helsinki, Finland |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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| The
Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro
reflects on current social issues - crime, the difficulties facing ethnic
minorities and those on the margins of society, police corruption and the
courts - both of the law and of public opinion. A gypsy discovers a headless body; Firmino, a young journalist who writes for a tabloid newspaper, takes up the case; the headless corpse is that of Damasceno Monteiro, who, having stumbled on a drug smuggling ring at his work, has stolen a shipment of heroin; the police are suppressing evidence. The stuff of familiar daily news, made into a thriller with intellectual depth. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Antonio
Tabucchi
was born in Pisa in 1943. He has travelled widely and lived in India and
Portugal, before settling in his native Tuscany, where he holds the Chair
of Literature in the University of Siena. He has long been the foremost
Italian champion of Portuguese literature and is the translator of Fernando
Pessoa. He is the author of a considerable oeuvre which is published in
many languages, including English. For Requiem,
which he wrote in Portuguese, he was awarded the Italian PEN Club Prize.
Declares Pereira was shortlisted for the 1997 International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It also won the Viareggio, the Campiello
and the European Aristeion Prizes and was made into a film.
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