TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saramago, Jose
AU  - Pontiero,Giovanni (tr.)
TI  - MANUAL OF PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY
SN  - 9781784872915
U1  - F 
PY  - 2018////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Painters -- Fiction
KW  - Portugal -- Fiction
KW  - Painters
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Love stories
N1  - H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. begins an affair with his subject’s secretary. Meanwhile the painting starts to fail. For inspiration H. takes a trip to Italy to contemplate the works of the great artists, but when his friend back home is arrested by the secret police of Salazar’s regime, H. is pulled back to Portugal. Art, sexuality and politics collide in Saramago’s first novel
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