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For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom João 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 stalwart
Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. What begins as curiosity quickly hardens into obsession. Tertuliano tracks down his double, only to find a man whos
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his
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
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. Undertakers f
Jesus of Nazareth grows up burdened by guilt and destiny. Set in first-century Judea under Roman rule, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ reimagines the life of Jesus. Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover
A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the
Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain is a controversial and witty story of a wilful, authoritarian God. After killing his brother, Cain is condemned to wander the earth. As he moves through time, he encounters moments from the Old Testam
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 sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
"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 'organiz
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
Das Vermächtnis des Nobelpreisträgers José Saramago war bekennender Atheist und eckte regelmäßig bei der katholischen Kirche an. In seinem letzten Roman schreibt er die Bibel kurzerhand um und lässt den Brudermörder Kain eine ganz eigene Reise durchs Alte
Inspiriert von der wahren Geschichte eines indischen Elefanten, den man im 16. Jahrhundert auf spektakuläre Weise über Land und See von Spanien nach Wien überführte, erzählt Saramago meisterhaft und voller Ironie von den sagenhaften Abenteuern des Elefant
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.
From Jos? 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
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 cit