description: Lisbon circa 1935 comes to life with lyrical intensity in the story of a doctor who forsakes medicine to recite poetry in the streets, the women in his life, and the ghost who occasionally accompanies him
language: English
title: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
titlecomplete: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Literature, Romance, Classics, Portugal, Nobel Prize, Novels, Historical Fiction, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 12297
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: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich