Indian Nocturne, Paperback/Antonio Tabucchi

A prize-winning modern masterpiece from the late Italian author of Pereira Maintains, this won the Prix Medicis Etanger, and was first published in Italy in 1984. Amid the backstreets, brothels and hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. 'Tabucchi writes... with an agility of mind and an economy of narrative that pulls the reader along' Observer