Raised from the Ground

This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author''s own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives of the family in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the republic in Portugal, the First and Second World Wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar''s life. Yet, nothing seriously impinges on the farm labourers'' lives until the first stirrings of communism.>

Product details

• Authors: Jose Saramago, José Saramago
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation), Costa Margaret Jull (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781784871819
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-181-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Portugal, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Biographical, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction, Biographical fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, nobel prize; salazar