This novel was the winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Margaret Jull Costa's translation from the Portuguese. Saramago tells the story of a passive, mild man who has little interest in anything beyond his job as a low-level...

An alienated history teacher named Tertuliano M'ximo Afonso is watching a video one night when he spots an actor who looks exactly like himself, right down to the last little mole and scar. Becoming obsessed with the man, Afonso goes ...

Nobel Prize-winning writer JosT Saramago creates a gentle and humorous story about an elderly potter, his daughter and son-in-law, the young widow who comes to live with them--and a dog. What begins with ceramic doll figures and some ...

With an epidemic of "white blindness" sweeping New York City, the criminal element stalks the city, robbing and raping, while one eyewitness leads a group of seven strangers through the afflicted city streets to safety. Repr...

A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness' which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is ...

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 a...

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finall...

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisit...

First published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize–winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family—poor landless peasants not unlike Saramago's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern prov...

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 Chris...

Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and...

Portugal, 1711: an amorous friar is pursued naked through the rubble-strewn streets of Lisbon; an enthusiastic procession of flagellants roars with pleasure over the damnation of adultery; a royal prince uses hapless sailors for targe...

In this, his last novel, Jose Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, Cain is whisked around in time and space. He experiences...

The late Nobel laureate's final novel, a radical retelling of the Old Testament. In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever a...

Lisbon, late 1940s. The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends meet: Silvestre the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona Ldia, who used to work the streets, is now kept by a b...

"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 t...

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant's journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary peo...

A delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure from prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago. In 1551, King Joo III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. In Jose Saramago's remar...

A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by the 1998 Nobel laureate in literature “Illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review   For José Saramago, the...

A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago.\n\nA brilliant skeptic, Jose Saramago envisions the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion as things of this earth: A child crying, the car...

If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happ...

A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifsCombining bitter satire, outrageous parody and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of Jose Saramago's earliest stories from the beginning of his writing career attests to...

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was Jose 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...

When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. "A splendidly imagined epic voyag...

The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by ...