Description
Late one night, the body of a young man is delivered to the morgue of an Italian town, and the following day’s newspapers insist on a tidy explanation: he was killed in a police raid. But as questions gather around the “official” story, the narrative turns into a spare, densely packed meditation on how truth is shaped—or erased—by institutions, rumor, and the stories we accept without looking too closely. With the quiet pressure of a cautionary tale, the book explores the limits of knowledge and the moral distance between what is reported and what is real. In Tabucchi’s characteristic, lucid style, the search for meaning becomes a journey that never quite arrives, as if the horizon itself keeps receding just beyond reach.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Pub.
Published Jan 1, 1990
83 pages
ISBN: 9780811211123
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Details
First Published
1990
Language
eng
Translation
From: ita
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