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  • Published: 1 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780141997377
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Little Misunderstandings of No Importance

And Other Stories





The collection of short stories that launched one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature to fame

A short story collection pivoting on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays a decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Set in Paris, Lisbon, Madras and New York and blended with the author's wonderfully intelligent imagination, Tabucchi reflects on the elemental aspects of the human experience, exploring grief, uncertainty, adventure, memory and love.

  • Published: 1 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780141997377
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

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Praise for Little Misunderstandings of No Importance

Meticulously crafted stories marked by wit, emotion, memory and lost grandeur

Publishers Weekly

Elegant ... amusing ... the magic of language, artfully used ... Tabucchi manages to play simultaneously in the treble and in the bass

Los Angeles Times

Tabucchi writes with what Italo Calvino, who shared the same translator, called "quickness" - an agility of mind and economy of narrative that pulls the reader along

Guardian