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Paperback edition of Tabucchi's masterful novel about an unassuming literary critic and translator who gets involved in political resistance in 1930s Portugal. With an introduction by Mohsin Hamid, author of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". 'Close to being a perfect novel, brief, tragic, inspiring' John Carey
Synopsis
An extraordinary novel from one of Italy's most acclaimed contemporary writers