Jose Saramago - Böcker

Nobelpristagarens två viktigaste romaner i en volym »Saramagos stillsamt absurda och lågmält humoristiska verk är alltid djupt medkännande.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Eva Lundgren, BTJ » Blindheten utforskar den mänskliga andens förmåga att uthärda även und...

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»José Saramago kan mycket väl vara vår tids största författare.« Chicago Tribune En epidemi av blindhet sätter ett helt land i gungning. I mästerliga romanen Blindheten [1995] undersöker Nobelpristagaren José Saramago hur skört ett samhälles organ...

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» Alla namnen är full av häpnadsväckande bilder och händelser. Utan tvekan ett mästerverk.« The Times En simpel arkivarie på Allmänna civilregistret blir besatt av att rädda en okänd kvinna från glömskan. I mästerliga romanen Alla namnen [1997] un...

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»José Saramago är en storslagen romanförfattare. Året då Ricardo Reis dog är ett dramatiskt verk med stor filosofisk tyngd.« The Independent Världens faror är lika universella som solen, men Ricardo Reis tar skydd under sin egen skugga. Efter att ...

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

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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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Adi bilinmeyen bir ülkenin adi bilinmeyen bir kentinde, arabasinin direksiyonunda trafik isiginin yesile dönmesini bekleyen bir adam ansizin kör olur. Ancak karanliklara degil, bembeyaz bir bosluga gömülür. Arkasindan, körlük salgini bütün kente, ...

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In 1551, King Joao III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant's journey from Lisbon to Vienna serves as the foundation for this witty tale of friendship and adventure.

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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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Saramagos Antwort auf Die Pest von Albert Camus. Ein Mann steht an einer Ampel. Von einer Sekunde auf die nächste, ohne erklärbaren Grund, erblindet er. Wie ihm ergeht es immer mehr Menschen in seiner Heimatstadt. Wie eine Seuche greift die Blindh...

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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 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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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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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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Tertuliano Afonso is depressed. After a colleague suggests he rent a certain video, Tertuliano is astonished to see a man who looks exactly like him--or, more specifically, like he did five years before. Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano...

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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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"Essential...A novel that resounds with relevance for our own time." —New York Times Book ReviewFirst published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize-winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family&...

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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 star...

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An early example of Saramago's mastery, this novel takes us into the last days of Salazar's dictatorship when a second-rate artist is commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a portrait and the political and intellectual struggles that ensue.

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"One of Mr. Saramago's last books, and one of his most touching," ("New York Times"), this posthumous memoir of his childhood, written with characteristic wit and honesty, traces the formation of an individual into an artist wh...

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The last novel by Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago, Cain daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. Saramago's tale runs from the Garden of Eden, when God realizes he has forgotten to give Adam and Eve the gift of spee...

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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 s...

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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 Sar...

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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 wares....

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What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe?In Saramago's fable, a new island is sent spinning through the ocean like a great stone raft. While the authorities panic...

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In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. Under...

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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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