The Edge of the Horizon

by Antonio Tabucchi and Jean-Baptiste Para

Book Overview

Late on night, the body of a young man is delivered to the morgue of an Italian town. The next day's newspapers report that he was killed in a police raid, and that went by the obviously false name "Carlo Nobodi." Spino, the morgue attendant on duty at the time, becomes obsessed with tracing the identity of the corpse. "Why do you want to know about him?" asks a local priest. "Because he is dead and I'm alive," replies Spino. In this spare yet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811224511
• ISBN13: 9780811224512
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.8"