The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 02/01/2005
ISBN: 9780811216043
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.04w x 0.56d

Review Citations: New York Review of Books 06/04/2015 pg. 63