The woman of Porto Pim
By: Antonio Tabucchi ; translated from the Italian by Tim Parks
Contributors: Parks, Tim
Edition: 1st Archipelago Books ed.
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781935744740
Subjects: Whales; Translations into English; Italian Short stories; Whaling; Fiction
Work titles: Donna di Porto Pim
Notes: "First published as Donna di Porto Pim by Sellerio editore, 1983"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Hesperides. a dream in letter form; title: I. Shipwrecks, flotsam, crossings, distances. Small blue whales strolling about the Azores. Fragment of a story; Other fragments; Antero de Quental. A life; title: II. Of whales and whalemen; High seas; The woman of Porto Pim. A story; title: Postscript. A whale's view of man; title: Appendix. A map, a note, a few books.