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...

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...

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...

"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...

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 ...