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HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF LISBON
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| By: |
Jose Saramago |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448128536 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448128532 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 2011 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Translated from: |
Portuguese |
| Description: |
When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proof-reader 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. |
| Synopsis: |
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proof-reader 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |