In the canon
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1989
- Originally in
- Originally in Portuguese
- Pages
- Pages 320
One small word, set down exactly where it does not belong, quietly undoes eight centuries of accepted history. Raimundo Silva, a Lisbon proofreader whose grey life has been spent correcting other men's sentences and asserting nothing of his own, lets his pen slip a single not into a history of the 1147 siege, so that the Crusaders who once helped wrest the city from the Moors now refuse to lift a hand.
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past.
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