From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi"s special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" ( TLS ). In It"s Getting Later All the Time , an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi?"internationally acclaimed as the most original voice in the new generation of Italian writers" ( The Harvard Book Review )?revitalizes an illustrious tradition, only to break all its rules. Seventeen men write seventeen strangely beautiful letters?tender or rancorous?lonely monologues which move in circles, each describing an affair, and each desperate for a reply which may never come. The letters plunge the reader into an electric, timeless no-man"s-land of "this past that is always somewhere, hanging in shreds." And at last, collecting all their one-sided, remorseful adventures into a single polyphonic novel, an 18th letter startlingly answers the men"s pleas: a woman"s voice, distant, implacable, yet full of...