The title character is hounded by a man named Victor whose breath smells of onions.  At the end of the novel, he watches three ships get bombarded by the fortresses in his city, and discovers that Daniel, the brother of the woman he has been sleeping with, is among the dead.  His lover is a chambermaid named Lydia whom he met at the Hotel Braganca 
The title character is hounded by a man named Victor whose breath smells of onions.  At the end of the novel, he watches three ships get bombarded by the fortresses in his city, and discovers that Daniel, the brother of the woman he has been sleeping with, is among the dead.  His lover is a chambermaid named Lydia whom he met at the Hotel Braganca after coming to a European city following 16 years in Brazil, though he really loves a crippled woman named Marcenda.  He spends much of the novel reading Herbert Quain's The God of the Labyrinth and writing poems, as well as talking to the recently-deceased author of Mensagem.  FTP, name this book about a man who returns to Lisbon in 1936, the story of a heteronym of Fernando Pessoa written by Jos?Saramago.
The title character is hounded by a man named Victor whose breath smells of onions.  
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis or Ano da morte de Ricardo Reis