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What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?

When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with admiration: Dr Maria Sara, his voluptuous new editor, encourages him to pen his own alternative history. As his retelling draws on all his imaginative powers, Silva finds – to his nervous delight – that if the facts of the past can be rewritten as a romance then so can the details of his own dusty bachelor present.

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

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What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 01/06/2000
    ISBN13: 9781860467226, 978-1860467226
    ISBN10: 1860467229

    Number of Pages: 320

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?

    When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with admiration: Dr Maria Sara, his voluptuous new editor, encourages him to pen his own alternative history. As his retelling draws on all his imaginative powers, Silva finds – to his nervous delight – that if the facts of the past can be rewritten as a romance then so can the details of his own dusty bachelor present.

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