Pereira Maintains - A Testimony

In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal''s dictatorship of Antonio Salazar, a journalist is coming to terms with the rise of fascism around him and its insidious impact on his work. Consumed by the passing of his wife and the child he never had, Pereira lives a quiet and lonely existence. One day, the young and charismatic Monteiro Rossi enters his life, changing everything. A man who once shied away from criticizing Portugal''s authoritarian regime finds himself unable to stay quiet any longer, resulting in his political awakening and a devastating act of rebellion. Tabucchi''s celebrated masterpiece is an ode to courage and solidarity in the face of political oppression. ''A stunningly good novel, and it goes on getting better in one''s head after one has stopped reading it - it works as an experience - something that has happened to one, which is of course the proof of great writing'' Diana Athill

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Mysterious, menacing, enthralling and mind-bending ... a masterpiece of compression Mohsin Hamid

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Tabucchi
• Assisted by: Patrick Creagh (Translation), Creagh Patrick (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2021
• EAN: 9780241519301
• ISBN: 978-0-241-51930-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Portugal, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Political, Fiction in translation, c 1930 to c 1939, FICTION / World Literature / Italy, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary