A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers
Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
Extraordinary...a tour de force of thought-experiment and
feeling-experiment
*Observer*
This is a shattering work by a literary master...a book of real
stature
*Boston Globe*
Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the
present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most
apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet.
*Independent*
He writes a prose of particularly luminous intensity, brilliantly
rendered into English by his regular translator Giovanni
Pontiero...Sweepingly ambitious
*The Times*
A powerful fable
*Scotsman*
Saramago's exuberant imagination, capriciousness and
clear-sightedness find full expression in this engaging work
Blistering, unrelenting, horrifying, yet still somehow luminously
redemptive
*White Review, *Books of the Year**
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