Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
by José Saramago
322 pages· ISBN 9781857542035
About
By the author of Baltasar and Blimunda. The last years of Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H, a second-rate artist commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggles to survive in a bourgeois world.
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