History of the Siege of Lisbon

Informationen zum Autor José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda . A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010. Klappentext When a Portuguese proofreader rewrites history by changing a word in a text, he unexpectedly wins the heart of his supervisor, Maria Sara, who encourages him to fabricate more in the grand style of a historical romance. Around this seemingly minor episode, Jose Saramago, "Portugal's great fabulist" ("Los Angeles Times") constructs one of his most ambitious, sweeping novels to date, a magical tale of love, memory, and the revision of things past. Zusammenfassung What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Saramago, José Saramago
• Assisted by: Giovanni Pontiero (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2000
• EAN: 9781860467226
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-722-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Portugiesische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary