The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

José Saramago with Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)

368 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction historical reflective relaxing slow-paced
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The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pont...

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