- Hardcover: 1 pages
- Publisher: New Directions (Jun 1 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0811209857
- ISBN-13: 978-0811209854
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14.4 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,423,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I don't know why I begin this letter talking to you about a palm tree when you haven't heard anything about me for eighteen years. Read the first page
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First work of Tabucchi to be translated into English,
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This review is from: Letter From Casablanca (Hardcover)
Letter from Casablanca is a collection of unrelated short stories. While Tabucchi shows the same skill and control that he shows in his novellas, I'll admit to a preference for the latter. However, the title story of this collection is not to be missed - it purports to be a letter written to a sister whom the letter's author has not contacted for 18 years. They had been split - the boy to Argentina, the girl to "up North" after a family catastrophe."Voices" is a tale told from the perspective of an individual who mans a "crisis clinic line". "Theatre" is set in colonial Africa where an Englishman entertains a young Portuguese colonial functionary with weekly theater. If you enjoy short stories or have read Tabucchi's novellas, you should read this collection - and everyone should read the title story, "Saturday Afternoon" is a family tale, again of loss and separation, of "hiding your head under the sand". The boy in a family that has suffered the lost of the father, hides himself in his Latin lessons. "Heavenly Bliss" is of an artistic young woman accepting a job as a personal secretary who serves more as a companion to an older woman with an interest in all things Japanese.
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First work of Tabucchi to be translated into English,
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This review is from: Letter From Casablanca (Hardcover)
Letter from Casablanca is a collection of unrelated short stories. While Tabucchi shows the same skill and control that he shows in his novellas, I'll admit to a preference for the latter. However, the title story of this collection is not to be missed - it purports to be a letter written to a sister whom the letter's author has not contacted for 18 years. They had been split - the boy to Argentina, the girl to "up North" after a family catastrophe."Voices" is a tale told from the perspective of an individual who mans a "crisis clinic line". "Theatre" is set in colonial Africa where an Englishman entertains a young Portuguese colonial functionary with weekly theater. If you enjoy short stories or have read Tabucchi's novellas, you should read this collection - and everyone should read the title story, "Saturday Afternoon" is a family tale, again of loss and separation, of "hiding your head under the sand". The boy in a family that has suffered the lost of the father, hides himself in his Latin lessons. "Heavenly Bliss" is of an artistic young woman accepting a job as a personal secretary who serves more as a companion to an older woman with an interest in all things Japanese. |
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