Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon starts as an intellectual dive into the difficulties and challenged nature of historical writing and ends as a feel-good age-gap love story. The book didn’t do as much with its alternate history aspect as I hoped it would — instead functioning more as a driver for the two love interests; nevertheless, I still found it enjoyable. Saramago’s writing is also quite difficult and lengthy (the man does not do paragraphs fr) though I found his dialogue quite fun.