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By the author of "Baltasar and Blimunda". The last years of Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H, a second-rate artist commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggles to survive in a bourgeois world.
The brilliantly original achievement of Siege [Historia del cerco de Lisboa] is the comical, hesitant, and . . . powerfully erotic progress of the couple's mutual courtship. Saramago is one of Europe's most original and remarkable writers."-Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
In this, his last novel, Jose Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, Cain is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Job’s ordeal, and finally Noah’s ark and the Flood. And over and over again Cain encounters an unjust, even cruel God. A startling ... Read more
L'Evangile selon Jésus-Christ
“Small Memories is a . . . nourishing last gift from a great writer.”â??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 tragic death of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawning the family’s blankets every spring and buying them back in time for winter; his beloved grandparents bringing the weaker piglets into their bed on ... Read more
In 1551, King Jo?o 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 Pa?s). Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it ... Read more
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