The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Author(s): José Saramago

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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. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier. It is 1936, the clouds of Fascism are gathering ominously above them, so they talk; a wonderful, rambling discourse on art, truth, poetry, philosophy, destiny and love.


Product Information

Jose Saramago was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature and is a winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Award.

Winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Award 1993.

General Fields

  • : 9781860465024
  • : Random House
  • : arrow
  • : 0.266
  • : September 1998
  • : 192mm X 112mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : José Saramago
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : English
  • : 869.3/42
  • : 384
  • : Modern fiction
  • : Illustrations