Pereira Maintains - Softcover

Tabucchi, Antonio

4.18

29,348 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847679366 ISBN 13: 9781847679369

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2011

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In the sweltering summer of 1938 in Portugal, a country under the fascist shadow of Spain, a mysterious young man arrives at the doorstep of Dr Pereira. So begins an unlikely alliance that will result in a devastating act of rebellion. This is Pereira's testimony.

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Review:

"A masterpiece of compression. A political history of 1930s Portugal, a love story between a man and his dead wife, a gloriously successful formal experiment, and an irresistible thriller - and it can be read with enormous pleasure in a single afternoon." (Mohsin Hamid)

"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)

"Close to being a perfect novel - brief, tragic, inspiring" (John Carey, Chairman of the International Man Booker 2002)

"Pereira is a marvelously complex creation. One of the most intriguing and appealing character studies in recent European fiction." (Kirkus Reviews)

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Every word of Mohsin Hamid's introduction is true: it's 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)

"It grips from start to finish....a riveting political allegory" (Financial Times)

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

"Political but gorgeously artful, sad and then laugh out loud funny, pacy as a thriller ....This book is perfectly executed" (Dazed and Confused)

"This novel...has been sensitively and intelligently translated revealing this understated masterpiece of love and courage." (Good Book Guide)

"[A] succinct, deceptively low-key political thriller...it's brilliant and you'll go on thinking about the characters and the way it's written for weeks." (Sue Arnold Guardian)

Book Description:

An extraordinary novel from one of Italy's most acclaimed contemporary writers

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