José Saramago

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREJosé Saramago's mesmerizing, classic narrative about the loneliness of individual lives and the universal need for human connection.Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf...

Nobel Prize winner José Saramago tells a quiet and poetic story, an excerpt from his book Small Memories, of a lasting childhood experience of simple, soulful joy. The narrator's memories of a lost childhood paradise focus on two glorious days when he helped his...

From José Saramago, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baltasar and Blimunda is a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (The New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. Portugal, 1711: an amorous friar...

A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An International Bestseller - "This is a shattering work by a literary master."--Boston Globe A city is hit by an...

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 speech, to the...

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant 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....

The Nobel Prize-winning author explores his homeland in "this monumental work, a literary hybrid" of cultural history, literary nonfiction, and travelogue (Publishers Weekly). When José Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books...

From the Nobel Prize winning author--a novel that 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.Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was...

"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--poor landless peasants not unlike Saramago's own grandparents. Set...

"The clarity and compassion of [Saramago's] vision make Seeing worthy of its name." --Washington Post ​"I have never read a novel that gets so many details of the political behavior that we for some reason insist on calling 'organized' so hilariously and grimly right."...

"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 . . ....

"Small Memories is a . . . nourishing last gift from a great writer."--Washington Post Shifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of memories, a simply told, affecting look into the author's boyhood:...

" The Cave] is yet another triumph . . . for Portugal's, or even the world's, greatest novelist. Read it." -- Washington Post A genuinely brilliant novel." -- Chicago Tribune Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Mar...

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 pursues his double.Author: José SaramagoISBN-10:...

A delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure from prize-winning novelist José Saramago In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. In José Saramago's remarkable and imaginative retelling, Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin...

A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, "Illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). For José Saramago, the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his...

In this "ingenious" novel (New York Times) by "one of Europe's most original and remarkable writers" (Los Angeles Times), a proofreader's deliberate slip opens the door to romance-and confounds the facts of Portugal's past. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.Author: José SaramagoISBN-10: 0156006243ISBN-13: 9780156006248Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage:...

A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifsAuthor: Jose SaramagoISBN-10: 1781680868ISBN-13: 9781781680865Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2013Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60d

A story by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, gorgeously illustrated in woodcuts by one of Brazil's most famous artists. When a lizard appears in the neighborhood of Chiado, in Lisbon, it surprises passers-by, and mobilizes firefighters and the army. With a clear and precise...

A story of quiet contemplation and steely resolve by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, illustrated for readers of all ages. "I returned to the spot, even though the sun had already set, I cast my hook into the water and waited....

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 fabulous fable" (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by...

The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon--gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after 16 years in Brazil. Author: Jose SaramagoISBN-10: 1522602771ISBN-13: 9781522602774Publisher: Audible Studios on BrillianceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2016Format:...

Author: José SaramagoISBN-10: 0156996936ISBN-13: 9780156996938Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/1992Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/03/1992