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VersandkostenfreiWhat happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?
When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader 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.
When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader 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.
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
01. Juni 2000
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
320
Autor/Autorin
Jose Saramago
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
221 g
Größe (L/B/H)
196/129/24 mm
ISBN
9781860467226
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"Marvellous, seriously witty, erotic and edgily surreal" -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett Sunday Times "Saramago is one of Europe's most original and remarkable writers...his writing is imbued with the spirit of comic enquiry, meditative pessimism and a quietly transforming energy that turns the indefinite into the unforgettable" -- Richard Eder Los Angeles Times "This cryptic, ingenious novel...is never dull or humourless... No candidate for [the Nobel Prize] has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist who was born in 1922 but was in his mid-50s before he started to publish the fiction that has won him an international reputation" -- Edmund White New York Times "A book filled with lyrical and intellectual rewards" -- Bill Marx Boston Globe "This hypnotic tale is a great comic romp through history, language and the imagination" Publishers Weekly
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