Jose Saramago

Broschiertes Buch

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Beschreibung

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.

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvill Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 1996
• Englisch, Spanisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 136mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781860461323
• ISBN-10: 1860461328
• Artikelnr.: 69563748