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  The History of the Siege of Lisbon (Paperback) By (author) Jose Saramago, Translated by Giovanni Pontiero

  

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  Short Description for The History of the Siege of Lisbon When Raimundo Silva, humble proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, takes it upon himself to insert a negative into the sentence of a history book, he rewrites history. The effect of this act of insubordination is to make his editor, the voluptuous Dr Maria Sara, fall in love with him.
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  • Publisher: The Harvill Press
  • Published: 01 June 2000
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781860467226 ISBN 10: 1860467229
  • Sales rank: 66,261

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• 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.