Raised from the Ground

It is set in the Alentejo, the rural area of Portugal where Saramago's family came from, and follows the fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family from the beginning of the twentieth century through to its middle. Joao Mau-Tempo suffers the suicide of his father, a drunken cobbler, followed by hardship as his mother tries to make ends meet in a society.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Saramago, José Saramago
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2012
• EAN: 9781846552496
• ISBN: 978-1-84655-249-6
• No. of pages: 387
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 30 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature