A driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading…

The brilliantly original achievement of Siege [Historia del cerco de Lisboa] is the comical, hesitant, and ]]powerfully erotic progress of the couple’s mutual courtship. Saramago is one of Europe’s most…

Si las historias para ninos fueran de lectura obligada para los adultos, ?seriamos capaces de aprender lo que, desde hace tanto tiempo, venimos ensenando?

Un bello relato para ninos… y…

Through the Alentejo family, Saramago conveys the story of rural Portugal from 1920 until 1979, including the Workers Movement Revolution of 1974. The author captures the language of the peasants…

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…

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…

Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago tells a quiet and poetic story, an excerpt from his book Small Memories, of a lasting childhood experience of simple, soulful joy.

Nobel Prize winnerJose…

Maybe through boredom, maybe through a spirit of contradiction, a publisher’s proof reader alters a key word in a text, and thus changes a good deal more than he bargained…