by Antonio Tabucchi · Edicions Bromera, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476601167
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«Nocturn a l'Índia» is the novel by Antonio Tabucchi published by Edicions Bromera in paperback (136 pages, in Valencian).
The narrator travels to India on the trail of a missing childhood friend and encounters uprooted characters: a young prostitute in Bombay, a strange child fortune-teller who tours fairs with his brother, and a thief who wants to take revenge on her husband. The search becomes an inner journey in which he fears recognizing his own identity.
L'Eclèctica collection, number 16. Translated from the Italian by Joan Francesc Mira Castera; the original work, 'Notturno indiano' (1984), won the Prix Médicis étranger in 1987.
Recommended for ages 16 and up; for readers of contemporary fiction and travel stories with an introspective background.
Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet.
