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- Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon in 2012. A master of short fiction, he won the Prix MEdicis Etranger for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem: A Hallucination, the Aristeion European Literature Prize for Pereira Declares, and was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Together with his wife, Maria JosE de Lancastre, Tabucchi translated much of the work of Fernando Pessoa into Italian. Tabucchi's works include The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico, and The Woman of Porto Pim (Archipelago), Little Misunderstandings of No Importance, Letter from Casablanca, and The Edge of the Horizon (New Directions). - Translator Bios - Antonio Romani and Martha Cooley's translations of poems by Italian poet Giampiero Neri have been published in AGNI, Atlanta Review, PEN America, A Public Space, and elsewhere. - Martha Cooley is the author of two novels, The Archivist and Thirty-Three Swoons. Her works of short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in PEN America, The Common, A Public Space, and elsewhere.
In this collection of short stories, the late Tabucchi ( The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico ) plays with philosophical themes such as the circularity of memory and time, depicting characters who struggle to preserve voices they can no longer hear and to communicate these echoes to others. ... Exposing memory for the fiction it is, these wonderful stories produce a melancholic nostalgia even as they undermine it. -- Publishers Weekly A pensive, beautifully written meditation on personhood and nationhood in the new age of European unity ... many of the characters in this joined collection--something more than short stories but not quite a novel--are stateless and uprooted; they come from somewhere else, and they're never quite at home where they are ... A pleasure ... for fans of modern European literature. -- Kirkus Reviews There is in Tabucchi's stories the touch of the true magician, who astonishes us by never trying too hard for his subtle, elusive and remarkable effects. - - The San Francisco Examiner Tabucchi's work has an almost palpable sympathy for the oppressed. -- The New York Times By now the appearance of a new novel by Antonio Tabucchi is a literary event. -- World Literature Today [Tabucchi's] prose creates a deep, near-profound and sometimes heart-wrenching nostalgia and constantly evokes the pain of recognizing the speed of life's passing which everyone knows but few have the strength to accept ... Wonderfully thought-provoking and beautiful. -- Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered Poetic and prophetic... I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of stories, all having central characters reliving an important, and life changing memory. The reflection upon time and place captured in a melancholic style with depth of clarity around quite simple everyday occurrences. -- Messenger's Booker
