Pereira Maintains

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Tabucchi Antonio

Язык: английский

Год: 1994

Издатель: Canongate Books

ISBN: 9781847679642

Переводчик: Patrick Creagh

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“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
Product Description
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.