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The year of the death of Ricardo Reis

by José Saramago

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Lisbon circa 1935 comes to life in this 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.

Fiction, historical, generalPortugal, fictionContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Portuguese fictionTranslations into English
The year of the death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago — book · Vinony