Raised from the GroundPublished for the first time in English, this deeply autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize winning writer Jos Saramago tells the powerful story of the Mau Tempo family. This deeply personal work follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo familypoor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives of the family in Alentejo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the backgroundthe