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Raised from the Ground

Raised from the Ground

Costa, Margaret Jull
Saramago, José

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0544102738
ISBN13: 9780544102736
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Nov 19 2013
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
Essential...A novel that resounds with relevance for our own time. --New York Times Book Review

First published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize-winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family--poor landless peasants not unlike Saramago's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, the novel charts the lives of the Mau Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background--the coming of the republic in Portugual, the two world wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar's life. Yet nothing really impinges on the grim reality of the farm laborers' lives until the first communist stirrings.

Raised from the Ground is Saramago's most deeply personal novel, the book in which he found the signature style and voice that distinguishes all of his brilliant works.

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