by Antonio Tabucchi · RBA Coleccionables. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447315505
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«La cabeza perdida de Damasceno Monteiro» is the suspense novel by Antonio Tabucchi, published by RBA Coleccionables in paperback (192 pages).
Firmino, a young journalist for a sensationalist newspaper, travels to Porto to cover the discovery of a decapitated corpse. His investigation, guided by lawyer Loton, uncovers a network of police corruption and drug trafficking, and confronts him with a justice system that protects the powerful while ignoring the disadvantaged.
The novel was originally published in 1997 under the title «La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro»; this Spanish edition appeared in 1999.
Suitable for readers of crime fiction and European literary fiction, as well as for fans of Antonio Tabucchi.
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.
