"One of the most intriguing and appealing character studies in recent European fiction, and easily the best work of Tabucchi's to have appeared in English translation."― Kirkus Reviews Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Portugal, until one day he meets an aspiring young writer and anti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism. "Ingenious and moving, it links politics, commerce, and good writing in a way that’s rare in this country: rich and varied, but best of all it’s very enjoyable." ― The New York Times "A small gem of a book that touches both the emotions and the intellect." ― Bondo Wyszpolski, Easy Reader "The narrative gathers its strange power―a sense of administrative, banality-of-evil dread―from a simple device: it's told by an unnamed interlocutor and appears to be the report of a government official to a superior. Tabucchi expertly chronicles Pereira's ascent to consciousness, which culminates in a quiet and reckless act of rebellion." ― Publishers Weekly "[Tabucchi's books are] economical surreal-comic novellas. There's a cosmopolitan eeriness here." ― Amit Chaudhuri, TLS Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012. Over the course of his career he won France’s Medicis Prize for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem, and the Aristeion Prize for Pereira Maintains. A staunch critic of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, he once said that “democracy isn’t a state of perfection, it has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.” Patrick Creagh  (1930–2012) was a British poet and translator. Used Book in Good Condition