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We're excited to announce that Saudade Toronto is Officially reopened! Come experience our cozy café, browse our curated collection of books, and discover authentic Portuguese products. We can't wait to welcome you back! We're excited to announce that Saudade Toronto is Officially reopened! Come experience our cozy café, browse our curated collection of books, and discover authentic Portuguese products. We can't wait to welcome you back!

SAUDADE TORONTO

The Book of Disquiet

$25.00

SAUDADE TORONTO

The Book of Disquiet

$25.00

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The Book of Disquiet is written by Fernando Pessoa and translated by William Boyd.


"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable." 
Publishers Weekly

"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output." William Boyd

A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.

 

Author

Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982.

Translator 

WILLIAM BOYD has received world-wide acclaim for his novels which have been translated into over thirty languages. They are: A Good Man in Africa (1981, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset.

Language ‎English
Print length 272 pages
ISBN-10 1846687357
ISBN-13 978-1846687358