The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing 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.

When Laia's grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother arrested for treason by the empire

that he knows more about the island than she does

on the dynamic of a master-slave relationship

Using her simple and practical techniques

he reveals an evolving sensibility and perspective

With its spare

Locked in anguish

decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency

Fantastic Night and Letter from an Unknown Woman

Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated

Obsessed by uncovering what happened

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