The Edge of the Horizon
Author(s): Antonio Tabucchi
Late on night, the body of a young man is delivered to the morgue of an Italian town. The next day's newspapers report that he was killed in a police raid, and that went by the obviously false name "Carlo Nobodi." Spino, the morgue attendant on duty at the time, becomes obsessed with tracing the identity of the corpse. "Why do you want to know about him?" asks a local priest. "Because he is dead and I'm alive," replies Spino. In this spare yet densely packed cautionary tale, Tabucchi reminds us that it is impossible to reach the edge of the horizon since it always recedes before us, but suggests that some people "carry the horizon with them in their eyes."
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Antonio Tabucchi is the winner of the Premio Campiello for Pereira Declares, and winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for Indian Nocturne. His other books include Requiem, It's Getting Later all the Time, and Little Misunderstandings of No Importance. Tim Parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling Italian Neighbors and An Italian Education. His novels include Europa which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His essays have appeared in the The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Parks is also a renowned translator from the Italian and lives in Verona.
General Fields
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- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : 0.666
- : 26 August 2015
- : 203mm X 127mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Antonio Tabucchi
- : Paperback
- : 853.914
- : 96