Raised from the ground
By: José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781846557064; 9781846552496
Work titles: Levantado do chão
Description: This novel follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants who live in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates. The lives of the Mau-Tempos are charted as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the republic in Portugal, the First and Second World Wars and an attempt on the dictator Salazar's life. Yet, nothing really impinges on the farm labourer's lives until the first communist stirrings.
Notes: "First published with the title Levantado do chão in 1980 by Editorial Caminho, SA, Lisbon"--Title page verso.