Böcker av Jose Saramago

Saramago guides readers through an immersive experience of a terrifying predicament. 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 text...

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On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration: they have achieved eternal life. Then reality ...

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José Saramago narra el insólito viaje del elefante Salomón a través de la Europa del siglo XVI. Una aventura épica llena de humanidad, humor y sabiduría. Siempre acabamos llegando a donde nos esperan. LIBRO DE LOS ITINERARIOS A mediados del siglo ...

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Despite the heavy rain, the 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 the final count reveals seventy per cent of the vo...

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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 in...

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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...

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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 ...

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Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control...

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Stell dir vor, es sind Wahlen und keiner geht hin. Bei den Wahlen in einem nicht genannten demokratischen Land geben über 70% der Wähler leere Stimmzettel ab. Die Regierenden sind verwundert, schließlich gab es vorher keine Anzeichen größerer Unzu...

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Ein früher Morgen im Lissabon der 1950er Jahre. In einem Mietshaus nahe am Fluss erwacht das Leben. Der Schuster Silvestre öffnet seine Werkstatt, Isaura, die ihre Wohnung mit drei anderen Frauen teilt, setzt sich an die Nähmaschine. Justina plagt...

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Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerate that provides his livelihood - until it decrees that it is no longer interested in his humble ware...

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Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he woul...

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For Saramago, the life of Jesus and the story of His Passion are things of this Earth: a child crying, a gust of wind, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat or the bark of a dog, a prayer uttered in the gray morning light. This be...

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When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. "A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulou...

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When a Portuguese proofreader rewrites history by changing a word in a text, he unexpectedly wins the heart of his supervisor, Maria Sara, who encourages him to fabricate more in the grand style of a historical romance. Around this seemingly minor...

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When Jose Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has certainly succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and bread...

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Portuguese Nobel Laureate Jos Saramago tells a fantastic tale about a city hit by an epidemic of "white blindness."

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Portuguese novelist Jos Saramago introduces Senhor Jos, a clerk in the city's Central Registry and collector of clippings of the famous and notorious, who becomes obsessed with a young woman after coming a...

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In this richly imagined fable of love, written by a 1998 Novel Prize winner and illustrated by an award-winning artist, a man comes knocking at a king's door to petition a boat. Readers learn where he's bound and who volunteers to be on his crew...

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Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his family in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, a mysterious place they are forced to contend with. Filled with the depth, humor, and the extraordinary philosophical richness that marks e...

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Blindness" comes this follow-up, set in the same capital city. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinis...

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Saramago portraits an imaginary encounter between Fernando Pessoa and Ricardo Reis, who venture back to Portugal after the establishment of the dictatorship of general Salazar. "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" describes the countr...

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';The inklings of Saramago's style swell throughout . . . Skylight shines.' New York Times ';Unmistakably Saramago . . . There is no shortage of wonders to be found in [Skylight].' Washington Post ';A fascinating and startlingly mature work . . . ...

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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 politician...

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A delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure from prize-winning novelist Jos Saramago In 1551, King Joo III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. In Jos Saramago's remarkable and imagin...

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';Saramago juxtaposes an eminently readable narrative of work and poverty, class and desire, knowledge and timelessnessone in which God, too, as he faces Cain in the wake of Noahs Ark, emerges as far more human than expected.' San Francisco Chroni...

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From a Nobel Prize winner: ';A psychological, even metaphysical thriller that will keep you turning the pages...with growing alarm and alacrity.' The Seattle Times A Washington Post Book World Favorite Book of the Year Senhor Jose is a low-grade c...

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';A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.' The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church an e...

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A stunningly powerful novel of mans will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. ';This is a shattering work by a literary master.'The Boston GlobeA New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Los Angeles T...

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