Raised from the ground
By: José Saramago ; translated from the Portugese by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull, translator
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780099531777
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Families; Fiction; Social conditions; History
Description: Contemporary fiction. Following the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents, this book charts the family's lives in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the republic in Portugal, and the First and Second World Wars.
Notes: First published in Portuguese as Levantado do Chao: Lisbon : Editorial Caminho SA, 1980. First published in English: London : Harvill Secker, 2012.

Translated from the Portugese.