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A review by jessby
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
2.0
Raimundo Silva, a proofreader, deliberately inserts a mistruth into a history text that he is assigned to. He falls in love with his boss and they start a relationship. That's pretty much it. You can probably gather that I didn't find the plot very interesting.
The paucity of punctuation was also a major hurdle to my enjoyment of this book. One sentence can go for a page or more. There are no speech marks. Having said that some of the passages were poetic and beautifully written. I enjoyed Blindness which was plot driven immensely, this far less.
The paucity of punctuation was also a major hurdle to my enjoyment of this book. One sentence can go for a page or more. There are no speech marks. Having said that some of the passages were poetic and beautifully written. I enjoyed Blindness which was plot driven immensely, this far less.