{"product_id":"stories-with-pictures-9781939810687","title":"Stories with Pictures","description":"\u003cb\u003eA masterful collection about intimacy, loneliness, and time, each inspired by different works of art, spanning the entirety of the great Italian writer's career.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStories with Pictures, \u003c\/i\u003eAntonio Tabucchi responds to photographs, drawings, and paintings from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other European countries. The stories in this collection spring forth from the shadows of Tabucchi's imagination, as he steps into worlds just hidden from view. From inscrutable masks of pre-Columbian gods, stamps of bright parrots and postcars of yellow cities, portraits of devilish Portuguese nuns, the way to these remote landscapes appear like a train emerging from a thick curtain of heat. As we peer through the curtain, what we find on the other side rings distinctly human, a world charged with melancholic longing for time gone by. Sight, hearing, voice, word Tabucchi writes, this flow isn't in one direction, the current is back and forth. Reading these stories, one feels the pendulum current, and the desire in this remarkable author to hold the real in the surreal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10407440\"\u003eAntonio Tabucchi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939810687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193981068X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC039000\"\u003eVisionary \u0026amp; Metaphysical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon in 2012. A master of short fiction, he won the Prix Médicis Étranger for \u003ci\u003eIndian Nocturne, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Italian PEN Prize for\u003ci\u003e Requiem: A Hallucination, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Aristeion European Literature Prize for \u003ci\u003ePereira Declares, \u003c\/i\u003eand was named a Cheavlier des Artes et des Lettres by the French Government. Together with his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, Tabucchi translated much of the work of Fernando Pessoa into Italian. Tabucchi's works include \u003ci\u003eThe Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico\u003c\/i\u003e (Archipelago), \u003ci\u003eThe Woman of Porto Pim\u003c\/i\u003e (Archipelago), \u003ci\u003eLittle Misunderstandings of No Importance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLetter from Casablanca\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of the Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e (all from New Directions). \u003cb\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/b\u003eElizabeth Harris translates contemporary Italian fiction. Her translated books include mario Rigoni Stern's novel \u003ci\u003eGiacomo's Seasons\u003c\/i\u003e, Giulio Mozzi's story collection \u003ci\u003eThis is the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, and Antonio Tabucchi's novels\u003ci\u003e Tristiano Dies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFor Isabel: A Mandala\u003c\/i\u003e (both Archipelago books). For her various translations of Tabucchi, she has won a PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant, The Italian Prose in Translation Award, an NEA Translation Fellowship, and the National Translation Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archipelago Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42682940883181,"sku":"9781939810687","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_3d4c98e2-d221-40b0-b2d1-517b94925fc8.jpg?v=1649731994","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/stories-with-pictures-9781939810687","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}