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Journey to Portugal
  • Published: 20 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448112920
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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Journey to Portugal

A Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture

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20 Sept 2013
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1 Aug 2019
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José Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and moods of his native country

José Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.

From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate José Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land.

Embarking in the autumn of 1979, Saramago resolves to travel to Portugal, as well as through it. As his country emerges from an authoritarian dictatorship, he traverses his beloved homeland, neglecting its grand 'sights' in favour of Romanesque churches and cobweb-ridden chapels, determined to find belonging in the landscape which went on to inform his greatest works of fiction.
  • Published: 20 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448112920
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
Categories:

About the author

José Saramago

JOSÉ DE SOUSA SARAMAGO, (November 1922 - June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. He was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament (EWP).
portrait photo of José Saramago

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Praise for Journey to Portugal

No portico, farmhouse or ancient church is left undisturbed in Saramago's readable, if labyrinthine, tale of travelling across his homeland in 1979

Samuel Muston, Independent

None but a Portuguese could have written this book; none but Saramago could produce travel writing like this. It is a wholly appropriate tribute to that astonishing juncture where the sea ends and the land begins

Henry Sheen, New Statesman

A book that...is a search for his country's heartbeat... The writing is, as always with Saramago, dense: a labyrinth of meaning and innuendo. But what is clear is that he loves Portugal.

Simon Blow, Independent on Sunday

One feels privileged to be in his company... This book is a joy to pick up and a delight to read

Hugh O'Shaughnessy, Tablet