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First work of Tabucchi to be translated into English,
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Letter from Casablanca is a collection of unrelated short stories. While Tabucchi shows the same skill and control that he shows in his novellas, I'll admit to a preference for the latter. However, the title story of this collection is not to be missed - it purports to be a letter written to a sister whom the letter's author has not contacted for 18 years. They had been split - the boy to Argentina, the girl to "up North" after a family catastrophe."Voices" is a tale told from the perspective of an individual who mans a "crisis clinic line". "Theatre" is set in colonial Africa where an Englishman entertains a young Portuguese colonial functionary with weekly theater. If you enjoy short stories or have read Tabucchi's novellas, you should read this collection - and everyone should read the title story, "Saturday Afternoon" is a family tale, again of loss and separation, of "hiding your head under the sand". The boy in a family that has suffered the lost of the father, hides himself in his Latin lessons. "Heavenly Bliss" is of an artistic young woman accepting a job as a personal secretary who serves more as a companion to an older woman with an interest in all things Japanese.
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I don't know why I begin this letter talking to you about a palm tree when you haven't heard anything about me for eighteen years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Yvonne, Monsieur Huppert, Monsieur Delatour, Uncle Alfredo, Nuno Meneses de Sequeira, Wilfred Cotton, Aunt Olga, Banana Boat, Madame Delatour, Buenos Aires, Sir Wilfred, Madame Huppert, Signora Elvira, Tom Barban, Alvaro de Campos, Carmen del Rio, Fernando Pessoa, King Lear, Mar del Plata, Signorina Palestro, Sister Marianne New!
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I don't know why I begin this letter talking to you about a palm tree when you haven't heard anything about me for eighteen years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Yvonne, Monsieur Huppert, Monsieur Delatour, Uncle Alfredo, Nuno Meneses de Sequeira, Wilfred Cotton, Aunt Olga, Banana Boat, Madame Delatour, Buenos Aires, Sir Wilfred, Madame Huppert, Signora Elvira, Tom Barban, Alvaro de Campos, Carmen del Rio, Fernando Pessoa, King Lear, Mar del Plata, Signorina Palestro, Sister Marianne New!
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- The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories by Daniel Halpern in Back Matter
- Proteus: The Language Of Metamorphosis (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Carla Dente on page 271
- The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Peter Bondanella on page 232
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