Time Ages in a Hurry
by Antonio Tabucchi
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Pub Date Apr 14 2015 | Archive Date Apr 14 2015
Archipelago Books | Archipelago
Description
Each of the nine stories in Time Ages in a Hurry is an imaginative inquiry into something hidden or disguised, which can be uncovered not by reason but only by feeling and intuition, by what isn't said. Disquieted and disoriented yet utterly human in their loves and fears, the characters in these vibrant and often playful stories suffer from what Tabucchi once referred to as a "corrupted relationship with history." Each protagonist must confront phantoms from the past, misguided or false beliefs, and the deepest puzzles of identity--and each in his or her own way ends up experiencing "an infinite sense of liberation, as when finally we understand something we'd known all along and didn't want to know."
Advance Praise
"Exposing memory for the fiction it is, these wonderful stories produce a melancholic nostalgia even as they undermine it." -- Publishers Weekly
"A pensive, beautifully written meditation on personhood and nationhood in the new age of European unity ... many of the characters in this joined collection—something more than short stories but not quite a novel—are stateless and uprooted; they come from somewhere else, and they're never quite at home where they are ... A pleasure ... for fans of modern European literature." -- Kirkus Reviews
"There is in Tabucchi's stories the touch of the true magician, who astonishes us by never trying too hard for his subtle, elusive and remarkable effects." -- The San Francisco Examiner
"Tabucchi's work has an almost palpable sympathy for the oppressed." -- The New York Times
"By now the appearance of a new novel by Antonio Tabucchi is a literary event." -- World Literature Today
"[Tabucchi's] prose creates a deep, near-profound and sometimes heart-wrenching nostalgia and constantly evokes the pain of recognizing the speed of life's passing which everyone knows but few have the strength to accept ... Wonderfully thought-provoking and beautiful." -- Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780914671053 |
| PRICE | $18.00 (USD) |
