José Saramago - Böcker

»José Saramago kan mycket väl vara vår tids största författare.« Chicago Tribune En epidemi av blindhet sätter ett helt land i gungning. I mästerliga romanen Blindheten [1995] undersöker Nobelpristagaren José Saramago hur skört ett samhälles organ...

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»José Saramago är en storslagen romanförfattare. Året då Ricardo Reis dog är ett dramatiskt verk med stor filosofisk tyngd.« The Independent Världens faror är lika universella som solen, men Ricardo Reis tar skydd under sin egen skugga. Efter att ...

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Nobelpristagarens två viktigaste romaner i en volym »Saramagos stillsamt absurda och lågmält humoristiska verk är alltid djupt medkännande.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Eva Lundgren, BTJ » Blindheten utforskar den mänskliga andens förmåga att uthärda även und...

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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 ...

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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. While the authorities pani...

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This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives of the family in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and internation...

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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 in...

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An early example of Saramago's mastery, this novel takes us into the last days of Salazar's dictatorship when a second-rate artist is commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a portrait and the political and intellectual struggles that ensue.

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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 s...

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When a Portuguese proofreader rewrites history by changing a word in a text, he unexpectedly wins the heart of his supervisor, Maria Sara, who encourages him to fabricate more in the grand style of a historical romance. Around this seemingly minor...

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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...

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Portuguese Nobel Laureate Jos Saramago tells a fantastic tale about a city hit by an epidemic of "white blindness."

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"No creo que exista en el mundo un silencio más profundo que el silencio del agua. Lo sentí en aquella hora y nunca lo he olvidado". El silencio del agua es lo único que el protagonista de esta bella historia oye mientras espera junto al...

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Blindness" comes this follow-up, set in the same capital city. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinis...

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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 motion a train of events that he cannot control...

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Saramago portraits an imaginary encounter between Fernando Pessoa and Ricardo Reis, who venture back to Portugal after the establishment of the dictatorship of general Salazar. "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" describes the countr...

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» Alla namnen är full av häpnadsväckande bilder och händelser. Utan tvekan ett mästerverk.« The Times En simpel arkivarie på Allmänna civilregistret blir besatt av att rädda en okänd kvinna från glömskan. I mästerliga romanen Alla namnen [1997] un...

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Portuguese novelist Jos Saramago introduces Senhor Jos, a clerk in the city's Central Registry and collector of clippings of the famous and notorious, who becomes obsessed with a young woman after coming a...

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Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his family in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, a mysterious place they are forced to contend with. Filled with the depth, humor, and the extraordinary philosophical richness that marks e...

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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 it is no longer interested in his humble ware...

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Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, José Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he woul...

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For Saramago, the life of Jesus and the story of His Passion are things of this Earth: a child crying, a gust of wind, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat or the bark of a dog, a prayer uttered in the gray morning light. This be...

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When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. "A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulou...

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When Jose Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has certainly succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and bread...

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Tertuliano Afonso is depressed. After a colleague suggests he rent a certain video, Tertuliano is astonished to see a man who looks exactly like him--or, more specifically, like he did five years before. Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano...

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"Essential...A novel that resounds with relevance for our own time." —New York Times Book ReviewFirst published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize-winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family&...

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