Pereira Maintains

Name: Pereira Maintains
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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By (author): Antonio Tabucchi

Translated by: Patrick Creagh

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 Pereiras apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of his own inhibitions, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroismand this arc is one of the most intriguing and appealing character studies in recent European fiction (Kirkus). See more

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Weight: 166g
Dimensions: 137 x 203mm
Publication Date: 07 Mar 2017
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811226172

About Antonio Tabucchi

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 Frances 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 isnt a state of perfection it has to be improved and that means constant vigilance. Patrick Creagh (19302012) was a British poet and translator.