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The History of the Siege of Lisbon
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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. Fearing censure he is met instead with admiration: Dr Maria Sara, his voluptuous new editor, encourages him to pen his own alternative history. As his retelling draws on all his imaginative powers, Silva finds – to his nervous delight – that if the facts of the past can be rewritten as a romance then so can the details of his own dusty bachelor present.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.227 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 320 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2000-6-1 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1860467229 |
| About The Author | 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. |
| Review Quote | Marvellous, seriously witty, erotic and edgily surreal |
| Other text | Saramago is one of Europe's most original and remarkable writers…his writing is imbued with the spirit of comic enquiry, meditative pessimism and a quietly transforming energy that turns the indefinite into the unforgettable |
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