{"product_id":"the-year-of-the-death-of-ricardo-reis","title":"The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWritten by Jose Saramago, Translated to English by \u003cstrong class=\"Yjhzub\" jsaction=\"\" jscontroller=\"zYmgkd\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" jsuid=\"EoslJ_c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-processed=\"true\"\u003eGiovanni Pontiero\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Nobel Prize–winner José Saramago, “a capacious, funny, threatening novel” of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira written by Jose Saramago, Translated to English by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSalazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojourn in Brazil. What’s brought him back is word that the great poet, Fernando Pessoa, has died. With no intention of resuming his practice, Reis now dabbles in his own poetry, wastes his days strolling the boulevards and back streets, engages in affairs with two different women—and is followed through each excursion by Pessoa’s ghost.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a fascist revolution roils, and as Reis’s path intersects with three relative strangers—two living, one dead—Reis may finally discover the reality of his own chimerical existence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCalled “a magnificent tour-de-force, perhaps one of the best novels published in Europe since World War II” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBloomsbury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eReview\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and “altogether remarkable” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a PEN Award winner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more\" data-action=\"read-more\" data-abouttheauthor=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"abouttheauthor\"\u003eJOSE SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them \u003ci\u003eBlindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.\u003c\/i\u003eIn 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"spec publisher-spec \"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb class=\"label\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb class=\"label\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003eHarperCollins\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"spec shippingdimensions-spec \"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb class=\"label\"\u003eShipping dimensions\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003e8\" H x 5\" W x 1\" L\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"spec upc-spec \"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb class=\"label\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003e9780156996938\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003eLength: 368 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SAUDADE TORONTO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49004829835487,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1251\/1761\/files\/FullSizeRender_55ca1d5b-5a58-4dd1-831e-f7c99d462e30.jpg?v=1776902079","url":"https:\/\/saudadetoronto.com\/products\/the-year-of-the-death-of-ricardo-reis","provider":"SAUDADE TORONTO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}