The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Saramago Jose

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Saramago Jose

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. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier.

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 *

José 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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ISBN 13	9781860465024
ISBN 10	1860465021
Title	The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Author	Saramago Jose
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1998-09-17
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Award 1993
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