The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Jose Saramago

The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 August 2002
Pages
320
ISBN
9781860467226

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Jose Saramago

A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention

What 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.

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