José Saramago
Cain
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jos Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, he has done it again with Cain, a satire of the Old Testament.
Writte... Buy or find out more →
History Of The Siege Of Lisbon
$25.95$20.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
Portuguese novelist José Saramago, 75, is surely Europe's leading candidate for the title of least-known living Great Writer. His dense, fabulist explorations of the relationship -- or lack of one -- between what we call... Buy or find out more →
Death With Interruptions
$13.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebratio... Buy or find out more →
The Cave
$19.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
"I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do know people can lea... Buy or find out more →
Baltasar And Blimunda
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Notebook
$19.95 – Paperback book / Verso
Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of José Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, rev... Buy or find out more →
The Stone Raft
$21.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
Joana Carda scratches the ground with an elm branch and the mute dogs of Cerbere begin to bark, portending doom. The earth cracks open and the Iberian peninsula separates from Europe and floats off into the Atlantic. The... Buy or find out more →
Seeing
$21.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rai... Buy or find out more →
Small Memories
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'Let yourself be led by the child you were.' The Book of Exhortations Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jos Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live i... Buy or find out more →
The Elephant's Journey
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
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 João III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, ... Buy or find out more →
Baltasar And Blimunda
$21.95 – Paperback book / Hbj
Death At Intervals
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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 ... Buy or find out more →
The Tale Of The Unknown Island
$14.95$6.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
In this richly imagined fable of love, written by a 1998 Nobel Prize winner and illustrated by an award-winning artist, a man comes knocking at a king's door to petition a boat. Readers learn where he's bound and who vol... Buy or find out more →
The Stone Raft
$12.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
Small Memories
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
Shifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of memories, a sim...
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
$12.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
Saramago's narrative is a secular re-telling of the Gospel, following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son, not of God, but of Joseph who is chosen to lay down his life for ... Buy or find out more →
Blindness
$19.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
A man suddenly goes blind for no apparent reason. As a doctor tries to assign an etiology, the condition begins to spread rapidly as if caused by a pathogen. Within days, there are hundreds of newly blind people and with... Buy or find out more →
Seeing
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with it all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. Seeing explores how sim... Buy or find out more →
Blindness
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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 un... Buy or find out more →
Seeing
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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, a... Buy or find out more →
The Cave
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
This allegorical novel takes its title from Plato's cave, where shadows constitute reality for those imprisoned within. Saramago sets his story in an immense office building, shopping mall and condominium called the Cent... Buy or find out more →
The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis
$12.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
Ricardo Reis was a pseudonym created by Fernando Pessoa, the great Portugese poet. Six weeks, after Pessoa's death, Ricardo Reis returns to Lisbon to take up residence in a hotel,wander the streets, read the newspapers a... Buy or find out more →
All The Names
$12.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
Senhor Jos‚ is a minor official in a registry office. He lives alone and spends his days in the documentation of the bare essentials - birth, marriage and death - of the lives of people he doesn't know. By chance he come... Buy or find out more →
The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon
$12.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
Through boredom or through a spirit of contradiction, publisher's proof-reader Raimundo Silva takes it upon himself to insert a negative into a sentence in a history book. The text now asserts that, in 1147, the king rec... Buy or find out more →
The Double
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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 ev... Buy or find out more →
Journey To Portugal
$37.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
Climbing into his aged motor, José Saramago's trip across Portugal is a voyage of discovery about his own land. His attention to all he sees is meticulous, whether it be a cobweb-ridden chapel or a grand urban mansion, a... Buy or find out more →
Journey To Portugal
$24.95 – Paperback book / Harvest
Climbing into his aged motor, José Saramago's trip across Portugal is a voyage of discovery about his own land. His attention to all he sees is meticulous, whether it be a cobweb-ridden chapel or a grand urban mansion, a... Buy or find out more →
The Notebook
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Verso
Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of José Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, rev... Buy or find out more →