The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago (1998-09-01)
Jose Saramago
ASIN: | B019L4XX0Y |
Publisher: | Mariner Books; Tra edition (1998-09-01) |
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The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago (1998-09-01)
Jose Saramago
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.
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