Indian Nocturne - Softcover

Tabucchi, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857869434 ISBN 13: 9780857869432

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2013

Synopsis

'A lot of people lose their way in India . . . it's a country specially made for that.'

Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. Xavier has been missing for a year, and the only clues to his disappearance lie with an overworked doctor, a young prostitute and the leader of a strange religious order.

Dreamlike, elusive and profoundly disquieting, Indian Nocturne calls into question the very nature of identity.

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Review:

"Beautiful, dreamlike" (Salman Rushdie)

"Tabucchi . . . takes his place alongside Irene Nemirovsky, Sandor Marai and Stefan Zweig as one of the great Continental rediscoveries for English-speaking readers" (Daily Telegraph)

"Tabucchi writes . . . with an agility of mind and an economy of narrative that pulls the reader along" (Observer)

"Fragmented, enigmatic and hypnotising" (Val Hennessy Daily Mail)

"[Indian Nocturne has] an almost ethereal lightness, which is soul stirring and at the same time emotionally intuitive" (The National)

"The joy of this book is in the journey. If you read it don't rush it; it's a book to savour" (A Life in Books)

"Pereira Maintains is small only in size. Its themes are great ones - courage, betrayal, fidelity, love, corruption; and its treatment of them is subtle, skilful, and clear. It's so clear, in fact, that you can see a very long way down, into the heart of a flawed but valiant human being, into the sickness of a nation, into the depths of political evil. It's the most impressive novel I've read for years, and one of the very few that feels truly necessary" (Philip Pullman on PEREIRA MAINTAINS)

Book Description:

THE PRIZEWINNING MODERN MASTERPIECE BY THE AUTHOR OF PEREIRA MAINTAINS

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857869434
• ISBN 13: 9780857869432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128