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The very first novel written by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saramago

About the Author

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.

Reviews

Saramago writes beautifully, and his style is ruminative…for those who appreciate finely wrought, meditative prose
*Kirkus*