The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jos Saramago

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jos Saramago

From Nobel Prize-winner Jos Saramago, a capacious, funny, threatening novel of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (New York Times Book Review).

The year is 1936, and the dictator Ant nio de Oliveira Salazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojourn in Brazil. What's brought him back is word that the great poet, Fernando Pessoa, has died. With no intention of resuming his practice, Reis now dabbles in his own poetry, wastes his days strolling the boulevards and back streets, engages in affairs with two different women -- and is followed through each excursion by Pessoa's ghost.

As a fascist revolution roils, and as Reis's path intersects with three relative strangers -- two living, one dead -- Reis may finally discover the reality of his own chimerical existence.

Called a magnificent tour-de-force, perhaps one of the best novels published in Europe since World War II (Bloomsbury Review) and altogether remarkable (Wall Street Journal), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is a PEN Award winner.

Jose Saramago is one of the world's most well-known authors today. He's written several books, including All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.

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ISBN 13	9780156996938
ISBN 10	0156996936
Titel	The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Autor	José Saramago
Serie	Harvest In Translation
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Mariner Books
Erscheinungsjahr	1992-04-27
Seitenanzahl	368
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