Raised from the ground
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Author
Saramago, José
Contributors
Costa, Margaret Jull.
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Format
Book
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 24 cm
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English

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"First published with the title Levantado do chão in 1980 by Editorial Caminho, SA, Lisbon"--T.p. verso.
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"First published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize-winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family-poor landless peasants not unlike Saramago's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, the novel charts the lives of the Mau Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background-the coming of the republic in Portugual, the two World Wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar's life. Yet nothing really impinges on the grim reality of the farm laborers' lives until the first communist stirrings"--Publisher's information.

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LC Subjects
Agricultural laborers -- Portugal -- Alentejo -- Fiction.
Alentejo (Portugal) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Families -- Portugal -- Alentejo -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Poor -- Portugal -- Alentejo -- Fiction.
Portugal -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Portugal -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Other Subjects
Historical fiction.