# The History of the Siege of Lisbon

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- Book: [The History of the Siege of Lisbon](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago/the-history-of-the-siege-of-lisbon) ([The History of the Siege of Lisbon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago/the-history-of-the-siege-of-lisbon.md))
- Authors: [José Saramago](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4812-853-2
- Published: 2011-12-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.