Antonio Tabucchi: La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro (The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro) On the face of it, this might seem a relatively straightforward thriller. A gypsy finds a headless corpse in Oporto. Like a number of Tabucchi's works, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro is set in Portugal. On this occasion most of it is set in the more provincial northern city of Oporto. The novel begins there, with Manolo the gypsy finding a headless body. The Lisbon journalist Firmino, a man of some literary ambitions who works for the tabloid O Acontecimento, is sent to Oporto to cover the www.doorway.ru: Antonio Tabucchi. · Translated from the Italian by J. C. Patrick. In this genre-bending thriller, Antonio Tabucchi, Italy’s premier writer, draws together a gypsy, a young tabloid journalist with a passion for Lukács and Vittorini, and an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal’s social www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 50 secs.
A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, whileas in all of Tabucchi's workblurring genre www.doorway.ruo Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throu. Pereira Declares (Antonio Tabucchi) El escritor en el bosque de ladrillos. Una biografía de Roberto Arlt (Sylvia Saítta) The Loser (Thomas Bernhard) Corazón tan blanco (Javier Marías) The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (Antonio Tabucchi) Aurélia (Gérard de Nerval) Facundo. Set in Portugal of the s, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro was inspired by a real event: the discovery in of a headless corpse in a park. As it turned out, the dead man had been killed in a police station in Lisbon; his tortured body was later dumped.
Antonio Tabucchi: La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro (The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro) On the face of it, this might seem a relatively straightforward thriller. A gypsy finds a headless corpse in Oporto. Like a number of Tabucchi's works, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro is set in Portugal. On this occasion most of it is set in the more provincial northern city of Oporto. The novel begins there, with Manolo the gypsy finding a headless body. The Lisbon journalist Firmino, a man of some literary ambitions who works for the tabloid O Acontecimento, is sent to Oporto to cover the story. A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, while – as in all of Tabucchi’s work – blurring genre boundaries The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro.
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