Raised from the ground / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saramago, José

Contributor:

Costa, Margaret Jull.

Standardized Title:

Levantado do chão. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Agricultural laborers--Portugal--Alentejo--Fiction.

Agricultural laborers.

Families--Portugal--Alentejo--Fiction.

Families.

Poor--Portugal--Alentejo--Fiction.

Poor.

History.

Social conditions.

Portugal--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.

Portugal.

Portugal--History--20th century--Fiction.

Alentejo (Portugal)--Fiction.

Alentejo (Portugal).

Portugal--Alentejo.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

365 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Summary:

"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 Portugual, 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.

Notes:

"First published with the title Levantado do chão in 1980 by Editorial Caminho, SA, Lisbon"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

9780151013258

015101325X

OCLC:

666239960