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Blindness by José Saramago
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 mental as ...Show more
Death at Intervals by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
"On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. his 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 directors are re ...Show more
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
$23.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Panther Ser.
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 text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with a ...Show more
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Panther Ser.
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. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber mai ...Show more
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