Jose Saramago Primary Author mixed material bibliography New York Mariner Books 2012 monographic en English

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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was José Saramago’s first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is a story of self-discovery set against the background of the last years of Salazar’s dictatorship. A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in the process about himself and the world around him. The brilliant juxtaposition of a passionate love story and the crisis of a nation foreshadows all of Saramago’s major works. A must-have for any devotee of the great Portuguese Nobel laureate, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is available in the United States for the first time. NONE9780547640228 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) F SAR Man 7346 C2O library & collabtive (Fiction) F SAR Man 41e2kjN7Q8L._SX332_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg.jpg 6140 2017-02-09 19:28:52 2017-02-09 19:30:29 machine generated