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by Antonio Tabucchi Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Original title: Requiem
Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi wrote this story in Portuguese because, he says, a story like this could only be written in Portuguese. It was published in Lisbon (1991) before the Italian version came out (1992). But then Professor Tabucchi, (more...)
by Eça de Queirós Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Original title: A Relíquia
The Relic (1887) is one long romp through a world polarised by piety and debauchery, Lisbon’s credulity and decadence, Egypt’s old stones and fleshpots, Palestine’s corrupt nostalgia and — jumping 1800 years — ‘one day in the month of Nisan, (more...)