The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2018
Summary
A unique, meditative, funny, politically astute masterpiece by one of Europe’s greatest writers.
The world’s threats are universal like the sun, but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860465024 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860465021 |
| Author: | José Saramago |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 273g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Panther S. |
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The greatest of his novels
The greatest of his novels * New Statesman *
Lovely…a work of fluent and amazing gracefulness * Independent *
A capacious, funny, threatening novel * New York Times Review of Books *
He has created a body of work of luminous power: ironic, intellectually playful, dense and strange * Scotsman *
Shows Saramago to be a novelist of the grandest sort…it is a dramatic work of great philosophical weight, filtered through a refined contemplative intelligence * Independent *
A study in symmetry, possessing a peculiar charm, humour and wisdom uniquely its own * Irish Times *
About The Author
José Saramago
Jose 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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