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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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Publication Year:
1992
ISBN-13: 9780547546926
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<DIV><B>From the Nobel Prize-winning author: </B><B>&ldquo;A capacious, funny, threatening novel&rdquo; </B><B>of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal </B><B>(<I>The New York Times Book Review</I>)</B><B>.</B><BR /> The year is 1936, and the dictator Ant&oacute;nio de Oliveira Salazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojourn in Brazil. What&rsquo;s brought him back is word that the great poet, Fernando Pessoa, has died. With no intention of resuming his practice, Reis now dabbles in his own poetry, wastes his days strolling the boulevards and back streets, engages in affairs with two different women&mdash;and is followed through each excursion by Pessoa&rsquo;s ghost.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> As a fascist revolution roils, and as Reis&rsquo;s path intersects with three relative strangers&mdash;two living, one dead&mdash;Reis may finally discover the reality of his own chimerical existence.<BR /> &ldquo;A rich story about human relationships and dreams.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The New York Times</I><BR /> Called &ldquo;a magnificent tour-de-force, perhaps one of the best novels published in Europe since World War II&rdquo; (<I>The Bloomsbury Review</I>) and &ldquo;altogether remarkable&rdquo; (<I>The Wall Street Journal</I>), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is a PEN Award winner and stands among the finest works by the author of <I>Blindness</I>.<BR /><I>Translated by Giovanni Pontiero</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV>
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