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Blindness by Jose Saramago
$30.00 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
Cain by Jose Saramago
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jos‚ Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, he again provoked the outrage of the Catholic church with Cain, a satirical and imaginative re-telling of stories from the Old Testament. Written in th ...Show more
Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 directors ar ...Show more
Journey to Portugal by Jose SARAMAGO
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land. Setting off in his veteran motor car, Saramago wants to travel to Portugal, as well as through it- by making it his destination the acc ...Show more
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture by Jose Saramago
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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 breadth of the country he loves dearly, Saramago brings Portug ...Show more
Raised from the Ground by Jose Saramago
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
First published in 1980, Saramago's prizewinning novel "Raised from the Ground" follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, Saramago cha ...Show more
Seeing by Jose Saramago (tr from Portuguese Margaret Jull Costa)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - ...Show more
Skylight by Jose Saramago
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to mak ...Show more
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Solomon the elephant's life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. It's a nice idea, since it avoids the Portuguese king offending his Luth ...Show more
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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 to walk. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile, over ...Show more
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
$26.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvest in Translation Ser.
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 not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Fath ...Show more