A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago. 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....

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago Senhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon\"s central...

A unique, meditative, funny, politically astute masterpiece by one of Europe\"s greatest writers The world\"s threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets....

H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. begins an affair with his subject’s secretary. Meanwhile the painting starts to fail. For inspiration H....

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There’s the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world; and the beautiful typist whose boss can’t keep his eyes off her....

Jose Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country. From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land....

This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the author’s own grandparents....

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 wing malfunction....

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....

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....

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 votes are blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated but the result is even worse....

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 inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet....

Одна из самых скандальных книг XX в., переведенная на все европейские языки. Церковь окрестила ее \\\"пасквилем на Новый Завет\\\", поскольку фигура Иисуса лишена в ней всякой героики; Иисус - человек, со всеми присущими людям бедами и сомнениями, желаниями и ошибками. ...

Португальский писатель Жозе Сарамаго после блестящего писательского дебюта в 1947 году вдруг замолчал на десятилетия. Критики успели забыть о его существовании, причислив к жертвам салазаровской цензуры. Но после революции 1974 года Сарамаго публикует одно произведение за другим, каждый раз вызывая фурор в среде читающей публики....

Jose Saramago se llamaba a si mismo «el dramaturgo involuntario» porque siempre sintio que su contribucion a ese genero venia marcada por circunstancias azarosas. Pero incluso asi, su genio creativo dio luz a las cinco obras teatrales que se reunen ahora en este volumen: La noche (1979), Que hare con este libro?...