num_pages: 358
description: The year: 1936. Europe dances while Spain edges toward civil war and on invidious home-grown dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon - gray, colorless, chimerical.In the midst of this surreal setting is Ricardo Reis, a middle-aged doctor and poet who has returned to his native country after sixteen years in Brazil. Instead of receiving patients in an office, he spend hours walking steep, rain-filled streets. He has a love affairs with the hotel chambermaid who slips into his bed at night. He is haunted by a young woman woman with a mysterious paralyis of her left hand. And he is visited by the ghostly presence of a celebrated Portuguese poet, recently deceased. Can Ricardo Reis live in a world bent on destroying itself?
language: English
title: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
titlecomplete: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Classics, Portugal, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 12293
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prémio D. Diniz da Fundação da Casa de Mateus, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Prémio da Crítica da Associação Portuguesa de Críticos Literários, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Prémio PEN Clube Português da Novelística
publisher: Mariner Books