The Collected Novels of José Saramago

by José Saramago, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Jull Costa, Giovanni Pontiero

This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago, with an introductory essay by Ursula Le Guin.

  • Format: eBook
  • ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780547581002
  • ISBN-10: 0547581009
  • Pages: 3869
  • Publication Date: 11/29/2010
  • Carton Quantity: 1
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  • About the Book
    This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago, with an introductory essay by Ursula Le Guin. From Saramago's early work, like the enchanting Baltasar & Blimunda and the controversial Gospel According to Jesus Christ, through his masterpiece Blindness and its sequel Seeing, to his later fables of politics, chance, history, and love, like All the Names and Death with Interruptions, this volume showcases the range and depth of Saramago’s career, his inimitable narrative voice, and his vast reserves of invention, humor, and understanding.

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  • About the Author

    José Saramago

    JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922–2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    URSULA K. LE GUIN was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929, and passed away in Portland, Oregon, in 2018. She published over sixty books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translation. She was the recipient of a National Book Award, six Hugo and five Nebula awards, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  

    Margaret Jull Costa

    MARGARET JULL COSTA has established herself as the premier translator of Portuguese literature into English today.

    Giovanni Pontiero

    GIOVANNI PONTIERO (1932-1996) was a liteary scholar and translator of Portuguese fiction, including the works of Jose Saramago. His translation of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ was awarded the Teixeira-Gomes Prize.

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    "Saramago is the most tender of writers...with a clear-eyed and compassionate acknowledgment of things as they are, and a quality that can only be termed wisdom. We should be grateful when it is handed to us in such generous measure." -- New York Times

    "He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal." -- Chicago Tribune

    "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master." --Christian Science Monitor

    "Our impression is of a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any impossibility to life by hurling words at it." --John Updike, The New Yorker
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