Product Description: Dawn breaks over Lisbon one mid-20th century morning. The novelist looks out the window in a neighborhood; there is nothing to indicate this day will be any different: Silvestre, the shoe-maker, opens the door to his workshop, Adriana leaves for work while in her home three woman begin another full day of sewing, Justina is looking at another long bout of fighting with her brutal husband; Lidia, the kept woman, and Carmen, the Spaniard, lost in nostalgic thoughts...read more

Product Description: Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is José Saramago’s first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is a story of self-discovery, set against the background of the last years of Salazar’s dictatorship...read more

Product Description: “Small Memories is a . . . nourishing last gift from a great writer.”—Washington Post Shifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of memories, a simply told, affecting look into the author’s boyhood: the tragic death of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawning the family’s blankets every spring and buying them back in time for winter; his beloved grandparents bringing the weaker piglets into their bed on cold nights; and Saramago’s early encounters with literature, from teaching himself to read by deciphering articles in the daily newspaper, to poring over an entertaining dialogue in a Portuguese-French conversation guide, not realizing that he was in fact reading a play by Molière...read more

If in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, José Saramago presented us with his vision of the New Testament, in Cain he comes back to the first books of the Bible. An unorthodox itinerary takes him to decadent cities and stables, palaces of tyrants and battlefields, led by the hand of the central characters of the Old Testament, with the music and refined humor that are the hallmark of his work. Cain clearly demonstrates the modern and surprising aspects of Saramagos prose: the ability to weave a completely new tale out of a story we all know. An ironic and satirical journey where the reader is present at a secularand in a way, involuntarybattle between the creator and his creature.

Product Description: Gathered here are all the texts written by Nobel Laureate in his blog until the date of his last entry on February 13th, 2010, where he defended the work of Judge Garzón. Committed, controversial, sententious, provocative, and spirited, Saramago never stopped intervening in public matters, and expressing his opinions, he remained true to his ideas...read more

Product Description: In Blindness, a city is overcome by an epidemic of blindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for a group of seven strangers and serves as the eyes and ears for the reader in this profound parable of loss and disorientation...read more

A traditional family business, a small pottery shop, must move when social and economic change make enterprises of a type that had once been necessary and commonplace obsolete.

Product Description: During the mid-sixteenth century, king John III of Portugal presented his cousin Maximilian, the archduke of Austria, with an Asian elephant. This novel recounts the epic voyage of Salomon the elephant, and what he endured to satisfy royal whims and absurd strategies...read more

Product Description: A terrifying allegory of the dark times of the new millennium. A driver waiting at a red light suddenly becomes blind. So does his wife and the doctor who examines them. They are the first cases of an epidemic of blindness. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the 20th century, Blindness masterfully portrays man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit...read more

Product Description: One of the main aspects of Saramago s intellectual profile was his active participation in the public sphere. His voice became a global point of reference, particularly identifiable with critical thinking, defense of the weak, and the restoration of human rights a voice that only became stronger with the author s receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998...read more

Product Description: Spanish Description: Jose, en lugar de ser carpintero sin ningun tipo de inquietud, es recreado por el autor como un personaje complejo y fascinante, atormentado por la culpa y el arrepentimiento por haber preferido salvar a su hijo antes que alertar a la poblacion sobre las intenciones de Herodes...read more

Product Description: Saramago portraits an imaginary encounter between Fernando Pessoa and Ricardo Reis, who venture back to Portugal after the establishment of the dictatorship of general Salazar. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis describes the country during dictatorship and highlights views using Pessoa's poetic aspect which have long been forgotten in history...read more

Product Description: A unique journey into the personal and political world of the Nobel laureate and author of Blindness.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, revisits conversations with friends, and meditates on his favorite authors...read more

Product Description: A driver waiting at a red light suddenly becomes blind. So does his wife and the doctor who examines them. They are the first cases of an epidemic of blindness. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, and a terrifying allegory of the dark times of the new millennium, Blindness masterfully portrays man's worst appetites and weaknesses and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit...read more

Product Description: Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors...read more

Product Description: In February of 1993, Saramago established a second residence in Lanzarote. Maria and Javier, his in-laws and residents of Lanzarote, and Luis and Juanjo, friends and new arrivals, gifted Saramago with a notebook to register their days in the Canaries...read more

Product Description: Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors...read more

Product Description: During the mid-sixteenth century, king John III presented his cousin Maximilian, the archduke of Austria, with an Asian elephant. This novel recounts the epic voyage of Salomon the elephant, and the journey it undertook to satisfy royal whims and absurd strategies...read more

Product Description: Saramago writes about his childhood: some parts in Azhinaga, the town where he was born, and other parts in Lisbon where he left to when he was two. With the poetic prose that characterizes him and without any trace of resentment, Saramago narrates the misery in which his family lived...read more

Product Description: A large crack along the Pyrenees separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe. Spain and Portugal become a great floating island, without oars, sails and propellers, drifting toward a new utopia. The cultural encounter between Europeans and Latin Americans will help to establish an equilibrium between the people of these two worlds...read more

Product Description: Saramago tells the story of a history professor that, by chance, discovers in a rented movie a man identical to him, and decides to go in search of him. This novel poses the essential questions of life and the search of one's own identity: What defines us as unique people? Can we assume that our voice, our characteristics, or even the smallest distinctive mark are not repeated in another person? In this book, Saramago once again explores the depths of the soul...read more

Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier, and when he decides to find his double, he learns a difficult lesson about the impact of experience on one's identity.