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Raised from the Ground

By Jose , SARAMAGO

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year
2012
ISBN
9780151013258, 9780544102736, 9780547840444, 015101325X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3079610 bytes)
Edition
1st U.S. ed
Pages
365 pages ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Agricultural laborers;Agricultural laborers--Portu

Description

"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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