Bibliograph

Raised from the ground, José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

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Label

Raised from the ground, José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Raised from the ground

Oclc number

666239960

Responsibility statement

José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Summary

"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 Portugal, 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"--Publisher's information

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