# Requiem

Canonical: https://www.kolczanksiazek.pl/antonio-tabucchi/en/requiem/9780241519318

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- Książka: [Requiem](https://www.kolczanksiazek.pl/antonio-tabucchi/en/requiem) ([Requiem.md](https://www.kolczanksiazek.pl/antonio-tabucchi/en/requiem.md))
- Autorzy: [Antonio Tabucchi](https://www.kolczanksiazek.pl/antonio-tabucchi)
- Wydawnictwo: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4151-931-8
- Liczba stron: 96
- Data wydania: 2021-07-01
- Język: en_GB
- Oprawa: Softcover

## Opis

In the city of Lisbon, Requiem 's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters - with a young drug addict, a disorientated taxi driver, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel and the ghost of the late great poet Fernando Pessoa - each meeting travelling between the real and illusionary. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality.