The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Description

Product ID:	9781860467226
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Authors:	Author: Jose Saramago
Page Count:	320
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating 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. 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.
Imprint Name:	The Harvill Press
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2000-06-01

Weight	230 g
Dimensions	197 × 130 × 21 mm