A wonderful and witty book, part folk fable, part philosophical tale, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature and the greatest Portuguese writer of his time.
Jose Saramago (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.
Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most
precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time
*Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*
Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources
and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to
life
*John Updike*
No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting
recognition than this novelist
*Edmund White*
He was the equal of Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Thomas Pynchon and
Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile - he was at once a
great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim
poignancy
*Harold Bloom*
Saramago is a writer of formidable talent and extraordinary
imagination
*La Repubblica*
To speak of the novels of José Saramago is to speak of the sheer
pleasure of reading
*O Diario, Lisbon*
A Nobel prize winner's fable about a man who petitions an indolent king for a boat. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most
precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time -- Walter
Haubrich * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *
Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources
and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to
life -- John Updike
No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting
recognition than this novelist -- Edmund White
He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunter Grass, Thomas Pynchon and
Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile - he was at once a
great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy
-- Harold Bloom
Saramago is a writer of formidable talent and extraordinary
imagination * La Repubblica *
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