“jose saramago”

A major new novel by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature Despite the heavy rain, the presiding 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 eventually, after an ... More

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a menta... More

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature--Vintage Lead Fiction title for November'A novel with impact- hope and charm' Independent 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 li... More

'The Double will become a classic' Spectator Watching a rented video, Tertuliano M-ximo 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 motion a train of events that he cannot control. Sarama... More

On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders – if there’s no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion – and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral d... More

More InformationVintage ClassicsGeneral & literary fictionISBN: 1860465021 Publication date: 17091998384 pagesB formatEAN: 9781860465024... More

This is the life of Christ told from man's perspective. 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 fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die ... More

A city is hit by an epidemic of sudden blindness. The authorities segregate the newly-blind and all who have come into contact with them. It is not long before the criminal element take over, the compound is set on fire and the blind escape - only to find a deserted, looted city.... More

Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one - of an apparently ordinary woman-will transform his life. By day Senhor Jose Labours in the labyrinthine stacks of the city's central registry. By night he ferrets for facts about the famous, Compiling his own archive of births, deaths and marri... More

More InformationVintage ClassicsGeneral & literary fictionISBN: 1860467210 Publication date: 01062000272 pagesB formatEAN: 9781860467219... More