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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago (Paperback, 1998)

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By José Saramago. Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel, which is regarded as one of his greatest works. See also: Blindness. A compelling alliance of wit and serious intention, the novel, which is set in the lively and colourful port of Lisbon in 1936, moves between philosophical abstraction and knockabout humour.

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A unique, meditative, funny, politically astute masterpiece by one of Europe's greatest writers The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising 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. It is 1936, the clouds of Fascism are gathering ominously above them, so they talk; a wonderful, rambling discourse on art, truth, poetry, philosophy, destiny and love.