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=Raised from the Ground=

Raised from the Ground (in Portuguese: Levantado do Chão) is a book from the Portuguese writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998, José Saramago. Originally published in 1980, by Editorial Caminho, and one of its publications ,in English, in 2013 by Vintage Books. The book won the City of Lisbon Award ,in 1980, and the Flaiano Prizes, in 1992.

Saramago took inspiration from his own experience to write this novel. In the Nobel talk he summarised it thus: "Three generations of a peasant family, the Badweathers, from the beginning of the century to the April revolution of 1974 which toppled dictatorship, move through this novel ... and it was with such men and women risen from the ground, real people first, figures of fiction later, that I learned how to be patient, to trust and to confide in time, that same time that simultaneously builds and destroys us in order to build and once more to destroy us."

Synopsis
The plot of this book is about the three generations of the 'Mau-Tempo' ('Bad-Weather' in English)family through the 20th century(1910-1974). The story begins with Domingos, Sara da Conceição and their newborn son João, moving, seeking for a better life and job. The story procedes untill 1974, during the Carnation Revolution, João Mau-Tempo had already passed away, so the narrative follows the life of António Mau-Tempo, Gracinda Mau-Tempo Espada, João with Faustina's children, and Maria Adelaide Espada, João and Faustina's Granddaughter, daughter of Gracinda and Manuel Espada. In Raised from the Ground we read about the drama of the family, of peasants from Alentejo. The Four generations fight against the exploration and domination of the most powerful, those being the owners of the land, the priests and the government, that use people to enrich themselves.

Critics
"Time now gives us English-Speakers the chance to see how well Saramago worked to serve and deserve such greatness in this early novel".- The Guardian

"Here Saramago has begun to develop a unique voice which swoops and dives on his own work like a bird (and which is captured with all the skill of a ventriloquist in Margaret Jull Costas's excellent translation)".- The Times Literary Supplement

"Rich...It reads beautifully well"- The Independent