The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

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ISBN-10: 0811216047
ISBN-13: 9780811216043
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 02/01/2005
Dimensions: 7.98" L, 5.04" W, 0.56" H

The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

byAntonio Tabucchi
Translator: J C Patrick

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Price: $16.95

Overview

Antonio Tabucchi, Italy’s premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal’s social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal’s power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.

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"The Missing Head is among Tabucchi's most controversial books for its insistence that even in such evolved societies as those of contemporary Portugal and Italy, a kind of lowercase fascism not only continues to flourish but is too often supported by the supposedly anti-authoritarian forces that control the levers of power."
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811216047
ISBN-13: 9780811216043
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 02/01/2005
Dimensions: 7.98" L, 5.04" W, 0.56" H
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