The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

José Saramago with Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)

368 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction historical reflective relaxing slow-paced
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The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pont...

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