The history of the Siege of Lisbon
By: José Saramago ; a novel translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Contributors: Pontiero, Giovanni.
Publisher: Harvill
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Proofreading -- Fiction; Sieges -- Fiction; Lisbon (Portugal) -- History -- Siege, 1147 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When Raimundo Silva, humble proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, takes it upon himself to insert a negative into the sentence of a history book, he rewrites history. The effect of this act of insubordination is to make his editor, the voluptuous Dr Maria Sara, fall in love with him.