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| | Amazon.com: The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro: Books: Antonio Tabucchi,J. C. Patrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The characters seem to be, for the most part, outsiders, from Firmino, himself, to the luckless Damasceno Monteiro, to the gypsies, to the transvestite who actually witnessed the killing. |
 | | While I prefer Tabucchi's work outside of the "thriller" genre of the last two novels, his writing (and its translation) are so well done that the genre is unimportant - in any genre, he writes stories that make you think as well as making you loath to set the book down. |
 | | If you like literary thrillers, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro is certainly in the same category as Canone Inverso, Class Trip, and The Name of a Bullfighter all of which are in some way masterful. |
| www.amazon.com /Missing-Head-Damasceno-Monteiro/dp/0811216047 (1818 words) |
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