Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: notebook
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-04-06
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1844676145
ISBN-13: 9781844676149

A unique journey into the personal and political world of the Nobel laureate and author of Blindness. “I only spoke because it was impossible to continue any longer in silence.”—José Saramago Provocative and lyrical, The Notebook is a record of a year in the life of José Saramago. On the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, the author started jotting down his reflections on the world in which he lives. He evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, conversations with friends, and meditations on his favorite authors, often rendered with pointillist detail: precise observations on

Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: interruptions, death
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-09-02
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0547247885
ISBN-13: 9780547247885

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 general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration—flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home—families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance poli

Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: cave
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-10-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156028794
ISBN-13: 9780156028790

Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices to which Cipriano delivers his pots and jugs every month. On one such trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and Cipriano and Marta set to work-until the order is cancelled and the three have to move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds o

Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Harvest Books
Keywords: book, harvest, blindness
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-10-04
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0156007754
ISBN-13: 9780156007757

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept

Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: christ, jesus, according, gospel
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 1994-09-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0156001411
ISBN-13: 9780156001410

This is a skeptic’s journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saramago’s tale has sparked intense discussion about the meaning of Christianity and the Church as an institution. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: journey, elephant
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-09-08
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0547352581
ISBN-13: 9780547352589

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, José Saramago has spun a novel already heralded as “a triumph of language, imagination, and humor” (El País).Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the king and queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding gift, everyone rushes

Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: blimunda, baltasar
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1998-11-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0156005204
ISBN-13: 9780156005203

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.