"Triumphs of nuance and suggestion." —
"Ruminative, elegiac, and mordantly funny, Tabucchi's prose conjures a state between waking and dreaming." —
By the Médicis Prizewinning author of and comes a collage of evocative, hallucinatory fragments about the Azores islands from the perspective of an Italian traveler seeking something that he is yet to discover. Along the way, he collects legends, relics, and stories of the island-dwellers: an elegant married woman's love of an Azorean fisherman, glimpses of a whaling expedition, and assorted shipwrecks, both figurative and real.
