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All the Names by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Category: Classics
A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago Senhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring i ...Show more
Blindness by José Saramago
Category: Fiction
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental as ...Show more
Cain by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Category: Fiction
After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is there in time to save Abraham from sacrificing Isaac when God's angel arrives late after a wing malfunction. Written in the last years of Saramago' ...Show more
Death at Intervals by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Category: Classics
"On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. his understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders if there s no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are re ...Show more
Raised from the Ground by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Category: Fiction
This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives of the family in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the ...Show more
Skylight by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Category: Classics
Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world; and the beautiful typist whos ...Show more
Skylight by Margaret Jull José; Costa Saramago
Category: Fiction
Lisbon, late 1940s. The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends Silvio the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona Lídia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Humble salesman Emilio’s Spanish wife is in a permanent rage; be ...Show more
The Double by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Category: Fiction
"What happens when Tertuliano M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And what happens when each of these men attempt to investigate each other's lives? How ...Show more
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther Ser.
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with a ...Show more
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