The History of the Siege of Lisbon

By Jose Saramago ISBN: 9780156006248 format: Paperback pages: 324 publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt pub. date: 1998-08-04

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A rollicking tale of love, memory, and the mysteries of history

Raimundo Silva, an innocuous bachelor and proofreader, one day takes it upon himself to alter a key word in a history text. His revision changes a signal episode in Portuguese history and leads him into an affair of the heart that dictates an entire rewriting of history into a grand historical romance. Saramago constructs an ambitious tale around this episode, invoking broader mediations on historiography, the uses and abuses of language, and life under authoritarian rule. It is a delight for all readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Salman Rushdie.

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