Synopsis
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
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Review
"The greatest of his novels" ( New Statesman)
"Lovely...a work of fluent and amazing gracefulness" ( Independent)
"A capacious, funny, threatening novel" ( New York Times Review of Books)
"He has created a body of work of luminous power: ironic, intellectually playful, dense and strange" ( Scotsman)
"Shows Saramago to be a novelist of the grandest sort...it is a dramatic work of great philosophical weight, filtered through a refined contemplative intelligence" ( Independent)
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A unique, meditative, funny, politically astute masterpiece by one of Europe's greatest writers
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