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190 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
From the Portuguese literary tradition, with which he became enchanted as a young man, Mr. Tabucchi appears to have fully assimilated the concept of 鈥渟audade.鈥� The word embraces nostalgia, wistfulness and a yearning for what is lost, evanescent and perhaps unattainable. The idea of saudade has long been thought to suffuse Portugal鈥檚 national character.