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BALTHASAR AND BLIMUNDA by JOSE SARAMAGO
Category: Classics
From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Category: Classics
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
Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the ...Show more
Journey to Portugal by Jose SARAMAGO
Category: Travel
From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land. Setting off in his veteran motor car, Saramago wants to travel to Portugal, as well as through it- by making it his destination the acc ...Show more
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction
H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. begins an affair with his subject's secretary. Meanwhile the painting starts to fail. For inspiration H. takes a trip to Italy to contemplate the works of the ...Show more
Raised from the Ground by Jose Saramago
Category: Accessories
First published in 1980, Saramago's prizewinning novel "Raised from the Ground" follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, Saramago cha ...Show more
Seeing by Jose Saramago (tr from Portuguese Margaret Jull Costa)
Category: Fiction
Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - ...Show more
Skylight by Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction
Called 'the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English. Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to mak ...Show more
THE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS by SARAMAGO JOSE
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvest in Translation
The year: 1936. Europe dances while Spain edges toward civil war and on invidious home-grown dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon - gray, colorless, chimerical.
The Cave by Jose Saramago (tr from Portuguese Margaret Jull Costa)
Category: Fiction
Review Quotes: "The teensiest bit of plot is meaningfully, accessibly stretched into something enormous." "We'll say it again: Saramago is the finest novelist, bar none." "A densely textured, wonderfully resonant reworking of Plato's allegory." "Arguably the greatest writer of our time. He ...Show more
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
Category: Classics
For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg archduke in Vienna. The only way for Solomon to get to his new home is to walk. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile, over ...Show more