num_pages: 358
description: The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow.Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing 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.
language: English
title: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
titlecomplete: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
genres: Portugal, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Novels, Portuguese Literature, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 12291
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: Harvill Press