José Saramago

"On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, understandably, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, funeral directors, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration - flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home - families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance...

The Nobel Prize–winning author explores his homeland in "this monumental work, a literary hybrid" of cultural history, literary nonfiction, and travelogue (Publishers Weekly).

In 1979, José Saramago decided to write a book called Journey to Portugal—and dedicated himself to obtaining the fullest meaning of his title. More than merely journeying in or through his native country, he...

Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day is marked by an unprecedented turnout of blank ballots and rebellious acts that prompt a state of emergency declaration.

With beautifully crafted language and imagery (conveyed here in Costa's translation), the late Nobel Prize winner Saramago (19222010) writes of his formative years in Lisbon and offers a bittersweet tribute to Azinhaga, the small Portuguese town where he was born and spent summers with his grandparents.--"Library Journal."

"This is a skeptic's journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saramago's tale has sparked intense discussion about the meaning of Christianity and the Church as an institution."--Amazon.

Informed that his clay pots and jugs are no longer needed, elderly potter Cipriano applies his craft to the making of ceramic dolls, but his family's subsequent successes are compromised by a terrible discovery.

The story of Jesus Christ as a thing of this earth: a questioning adolescent who is troubled by the world and by his body; a mother who is, by turns, devoted, fearful, and resentful; a family with all the complex frictions of any family.

"The Portuguese Nobel Prize winner's delightful posthumous novel recounts the [16th century] travels of an Indian elephant...from Lisbon to Vienna" (The New Yorker).

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. In The Elephant's Journey, José Saramago imagines Solomon's epic journey by foot across Europe with his Hindu keeper Subhro along for

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Un viejo alfarero, su hija y su yerno, tras una crisis en la industria artesanal, emprenden una nueva estrategia en sus ventas pues de ellas dependen para no ser absorbidos por la gran ciudad que crece desmedidamente cerca de su poblado rústico. simultáneamente, marcial, el yerno, empleado como vigilante permanente del complejo comercial de la ciudad, es ascendido en su trabajo. tras el fracaso de su nueva empresa y la resistencia a cambiar de espacio,...