内容简介
The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator
establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless,
chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home
after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
作者简介
Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers
of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922 in the small
rural village of Azinhaga, he was in his fifties when he came to
prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and
Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, which included plays,
poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels,
translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in June 2010.