Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Vintage Classics

By: Jose Saramago

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Paperback | 17 January 1998 | Edition Number 1

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A unique, meditative, funny, politically astute masterpiece by one of Europe's greatest writers

Ricardo Reis was a pseudonym created by Fernando Pessoa, the great Portugese poet. Six weeks, after Pessoa's death, Ricardo Reis returns to Lisbon to take up residence in a hotel,wander the streets, read the newspapers and muse on love, destiny, politics, life and death with his old friend.

About the Author

José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922 in the small rural village of Azinhaga, he was in his fifties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, which included plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in June 2010.

Industry Reviews

"The greatest of his novels" * New Statesman * "Lovely...a work of fluent and amazing gracefulness" * Independent * "A capacious, funny, threatening novel" * New York Times Review of Books * "He has created a body of work of luminous power: ironic, intellectually playful, dense and strange" * Scotsman * "Shows Saramago to be a novelist of the grandest sort...it is a dramatic work of great philosophical weight, filtered through a refined contemplative intelligence" * Independent *

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