{"product_id":"9780241519318","title":"Requiem : A Hallucination (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, \"our eyes saw things differently\"' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted city\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters - with a young drug addict, a disorientated taxi driver, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel and the ghost of the late great poet Fernando Pessoa - each meeting travelling between the real and illusionary. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Tabucchi is a master of illusion and allusion, and this is a literary puzzle that teases, amuses and provokes' Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49158140625131,"sku":"EB_LI0700_B14-05_SIMS","price":21.8,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780241519318-1.jpg?v=1786016181","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780241519318","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}