Skylight (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780544570375)

"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 . . . The book is a gem." -- Boston Globe

Lisbon, late 1940s. The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends meet: Silvio the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona Lídia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Humble salesman Emilio's Spanish wife is in a permanent rage; beautiful Claudinha's boss lusts for her; Justina and her womanizer husband live at war with each other. Happy marriages, abusive relationships, jealousy, gossip, love--Skylight is a portrait of ordinary people painted by the master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardship of the modern world.

"The gifted young Saramago makes these characters click together in a way that's extremely sympathetic." -- NPR, All Things Considered

"It was only a matter of time before a work of such extraordinary honesty and perception would make its way into the world." -- San Francisco Chronicle

Author: José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
ISBN-10: 0544570375
ISBN-13: 9780544570375
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2015
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/22/2015 pg. 36