José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
19 หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์โดย Jos Saramago
Jos Saramago: Skylight
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 …
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Jose Saramago: Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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. …
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Jose Saramago: Raised from the Ground
This early work is deeply personal and Jose Saramago ‘s most autobiographical, following the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family poor, landless peasants not unlike the author s own …
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Jose Saramago: History of the Siege of Lisbon
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical …
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Jos Saramago: Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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 …
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Jos Saramago: Tale of the Unknown Island
"A man went to knock at the king’s door and said, Give me a boat. The king’s house had many other doors, but this was the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), …
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Jos Saramago: Stone Raft
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 …
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Jos Saramago: Small Memories
A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world’s most respected writers.Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese village of Azinhaga, Jos Saramago was only a baby …
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Jose Saramago: Elephant’s Journey
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 …
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Jose Saramago: Blindness
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 …
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Jose Saramago: All The Names
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 …
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Jos Saramago: Baltasar & Blimunda
In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home …
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Jos Saramago: Journey to Portugal
Jos 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 …
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Jose Saramago: Double
Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in …
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Jose Saramago: Death at Intervals
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. …
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Jos Saramago: Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Saramago’s Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil a kindly and necessary evil but with God, a …
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Jose Saramago: Cain
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 …
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Jos Saramago: Seeing
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 …
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Jos Saramago: Cave
Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerate that provides his livelihood until it decrees that …
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