Copyright © 1994 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore

Copyright © 1995 by Patrick Creagh

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This translation is published by arrangement with

The Harvill Press, London.

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-

[Sostiene Pereira. English]

Pereira Declares : a testimony / Antonio Tabucchi : translated by Patrick Creagh.

p.cm.

eISBN 978-0-8112-2191-7

Portugal—History—1910-1974—Fiction.        I.Creagh,

Patrick.       II. Title

PQ4880.A24S6613     1996

853’.914—dc20 95-43565

CIP

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