The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago

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epub | 7.43 MB | English | Isbn:9780547540344 | Author: José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) | Year: 2017

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A proofreader realizes his power to edit the truth on a whim, in a "brilliantly original" novel by a Nobel Prize winner (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Raimundo Silva is a middle-aged, celibate clerk, proofing manuscripts for a respectable publishing house. Fluent in Portuguese, he has been assigned to work on a standard history of the country, and the twelfth-century king who laid siege to Lisbon. In a moment of subversive daring, Raimundo decides to change just one single word of text-a capricious revision that completely undoes the past. When discovered, his insolent disregard for facts appalls his employers-save for his new editor, Maria Sara. She suggests that Rainmundo take his transgressions even further.

Through Rainmundo and Maria's eyes, what transpires is an alternate view of history and a colorful reinvention of a debatable truth. It's a serpentine journey through time where past and present converge, fact becomes myth, and fiction and reality blur-especially for Rainmundo and Maria themselves, who begin to find themselves erotically drawn to each other.

"Walter Mitty has nothing on Raimundo Silva . . . this hypnotic tale is a great comic romp through history, language and the imagination." - Publishers Weekly

Translated by Giovanni Pontiero

Category:Awards, Fiction, Literature, World Fiction, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction, Historical Fiction, European Fiction - General, European Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, War & Military Fiction, Medieval Europe - Historical Fiction, Multiple Timelines - Historical Fiction, Portuguese Fiction, Portuguese People - Fiction, Sieges - Fiction, Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates->1991-2000

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