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Blindness by Jose Saramago
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther S. | Reading Level: very good
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental as ...Show more
Cain by Jose Saramago
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", he has done it again with "Cain", a satire of the Old Testament. Written in the last years of Saramago's life, it tackles many of the moral and logica ...Show more
Cain by Jose Saramago
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jos‚ Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, he again provoked the outrage of the Catholic church with Cain, a satirical and imaginative re-telling of stories from the Old Testament. Written in th ...Show more
Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there's no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors ar ...Show more
Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there's no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors ar ...Show more
Journey to Portugal by Jose Saramago
$37.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Crossing his native land from northeast to southwest, Jose Saramago explores the villages and towns of Portugal and discovers what it is that binds him to his country and his people.
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. begins an affair with his subject's secretary. Meanwhile the painting starts to fail. For inspiration H. takes a trip to Italy to contemplate the works of the ...Show more
Seeing by Jose Saramago (tr from Portuguese Margaret Jull Costa)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - ...Show more
Skylight by Jose Saramago
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Called 'the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English. Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to mak ...Show more
Small Memories by Jose Saramago
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'Let yourself be led by the child you were' - "The Book of Exhortations". Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Neve ...Show more
Small Memories : A Memoir by Jose Saramago
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'Let yourself be led by the child you were' - "The Book of Exhortations". Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Neve ...Show more