Raised from the Ground by José Saramago - ISBN: 9781784871819
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Landless family’s fight for survival mirrors Portugal’s tumultuous history.

Raised from the Ground

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    400 pages

  • Release Date

    30 April 2018

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Summary

Published for the first time in English, this deeply autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago tells the powerful story of the Mau-Tempo family.

This deeply personal work follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author’s own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives of the family in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the republic in Por…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784871819
ISBN-10:1784871818
Author:José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:30 April 2018
Weight:284g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 26mm
About The Author

José Saramago

Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

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