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BALTHASAR AND BLIMUNDA by JOSE SARAMAGO
Category: Fiction
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: 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
Blindness by Jose 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 Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", he has done it again with "Cain", a satire of the Old Testament. Written in the last years of Saramago's life, it tackles many of the moral and logica ...Show more
Cain by Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", he has done it again with "Cain", a satire of the Old Testament. Written in the last years of Saramago's life, it tackles many of the moral and logica ...Show more
Cain by Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jos‚ Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, he again provoked the outrage of the Catholic church with Cain, a satirical and imaginative re-telling of stories from the Old Testament. Written in th ...Show more
Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This 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 ar ...Show more
Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
Category: Fiction
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This 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 ar ...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