Letter from Casablanca

Letter from Casablanca (Italian: Il gioco del rovescio) is a 1981 short story collection by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi.^[1][2][3][4]

Letter from Casablanca

Author	Antonio Tabucchi
Original title	Il gioco del rovescio
Translator	Janice M. Thresher
Language	Italian
Publisher	Il Saggiatore [it]
Publication date	1981
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	1986
Pages	136

Contents

The first edition from Il Saggiatore [it] contains the following stories.

• "Letter from Casablanca" ("Lettera da Casablanca")
• "Saturday Afternoons" ("I pomeriggi del sabato")
• "Heavenly Bliss" ("Paradiso celeste")
• "Dolores Ibarruri Sheds Bitter Tears" ("Dolores Iburrari versa lacrime amare")
• "The Little Gatsby" ("Il piccolo Gatsby")
• "Voices" ("Voci")
• "Theatre" ("Teatro")
• "The Backwards Game" ("Il gioco del rovescio")

The 1988 Italian edition from Feltrinelli Editore contains three additional stories. These stories are not in New Directions Publishing's English-language edition, published in 1986, but two—"The Cheshire Cat" and "Wanderlust"—were published in English in The Massachusetts Review in 2019.^[5]

• "The Cheshire Cat" ("Il gatto dello Cheshire")
• "Wanderlust" ("Vagabondaggio")
• "A Day in Olympia" ("Una giornata a Olimpia")