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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 Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvest in Translation Ser.
Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and necessary evil - but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Fath ...Show more
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