In the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters - a young drug addict, a disorientated taxi driver, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel and the ghost of the late great poet Fernando Pessoa - each meeting travelling between the real and illusionary. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality.
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ISBN | 9780241519318 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, TRAVEL / Europe / Spain & Portugal, FICTION / World Literature / Italy, Fiction in translation, Travel writing, Memoirs, Portugal, Lisbon, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Penguin Books |
Jahr | 20210701 |
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