Title:
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HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF LISBON
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By: |
Jose Saramago |
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Paperback |
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ISBN 10: |
1860467229 |
ISBN 13: |
9781860467226 |
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Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 June, 2000 |
Pages: |
320 |
Translated from: |
Portuguese |
Description: |
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? 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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What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proof-reader 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. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
The Harvill Press |
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