# The History of the Siege of Lisbon

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- Libro: [The History of the Siege of Lisbon](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jose-saramago/en/the-history-of-the-siege-of-lisbon) ([The History of the Siege of Lisbon.md](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jose-saramago/en/the-history-of-the-siege-of-lisbon.md))
- Autores: [José Saramago](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jose-saramago)
- Editorial: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-18-6046-722-6
- Páginas: 320
- Publicación: 2018-09-20
- Idioma: en_GB
- Encuadernación: Softcover

## Descripción

What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with admiration: Dr Maria Sara, his voluptuous new editor, encourages him to pen his own alternative history. As his retelling draws on all his imaginative powers, Silva finds – to his nervous delight – that if the facts of the past can be rewritten as a romance then so can the details of his own dusty bachelor present.