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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 01/06/2000
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ISBN: 9781860467226
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
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Weight: 256g
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RRP: £9.99
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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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 01/06/2000
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ISBN: 9781860467226
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
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Weight: 256g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"Marvellous, seriously witty, erotic and edgily surreal"
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
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"Saramago is one of Europe's most original and remarkable writers...his writing is imbued with the spirit of comic enquiry, meditative pessimism and a quietly transforming energy that turns the indefinite into the unforgettable"
Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
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"This cryptic, ingenious novel...is never dull or humourless... No candidate for [the Nobel Prize] has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist who was born in 1922 but was in his mid-50s before he started to publish the fiction that has won him an international reputation"
Edmund White, New York Times
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"A book filled with lyrical and intellectual rewards"
Bill Marx, Boston Globe
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"This hypnotic tale is a great comic romp through history, language and the imagination"
Publishers Weekly
