# Requiem

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- Authors: [Antonio Tabucchi](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-tabucchi)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2021-07-01
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre

## Description

In 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.

## Editions

### Requiem

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4175-223-4
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB

### Requiem

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-739-1
- Published: 2021-07-01
- Language: en_GB

### Requiem

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4151-931-8
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2021-07-01
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Réquiem](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-tabucchi/es/requiem) (es_ES)
- [Requiem](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-tabucchi/pt/requiem) (pt_PT)