Saramago, José <br/><br/>
The history of the siege of Lisbon / 
José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. 
 - 1st Harvest ed. 
 - San Diego :  Harcourt Brace,  1998. 
 - 314 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally pub. as hbk.: c1996. 
<br/><br/> A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0156006243 (pbk.) 9780156006248 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1147 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Proofreading--Fiction.<br/>Sieges--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Lisbon (Portugal)--History--Siege, 1147--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction<br/>Parables
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ9281.A66  / H5713 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>869.3/42