Books by José Saramago

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind.

Despite the heavy rain, the 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 the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated but the result is even worse.

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and necessary evil - but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father.

A story by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, gorgeously illustrated in woodcuts by one of Brazil''s most famous artists.When a lizard appears in the neighborhood of Chiado, in Lisbon, it surprises passers-by, and mobilizes firefighters and the army. With a clear and precise style, the fable offers a multitude of senses, reaching audiences of all ages. "The Lizard" is a short story included in A Bagagem do Viajante (1973), a volume that brought together the Saramago chronicles for the newspaper A Capital and the weekly Jornal do Fundão between 1971 and 1972. Translated by Nick Caistor and Lucia Caistor, The Lizard, is an illustrated version of the chronicle by J. Borges.

From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land.

Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally. Death does return eventually, but with a new, courteous approach - delivering violet warning letters to her victims.

After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever.Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain wittily tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarain God, forming part of Saramago's long argument with God and recalling his provocative novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.

I Kain lader Saramago Eva gå tilbage til Paradis efter syndefaldet. Af en ærkeengel får hun lov til at hente noget af den frugt, der ellers ville gå til spilde i Paradis. Men selv om hun sværger over for Adam, at hun ikke tilbød noget til gengæld, er deres første barn mistænkelig blond og lys i huden.Da Kain senere må vandre over jorden alene, overhører han en samtale mellem Abraham og Isak. Det lykkes Kain at forhindre Abraham i at slå sin egen søn ihjel. Den engel, der af Gud havde fået besked på at forhindre mordet ankommer forsinket pga vingeproblemer. Englen undskylder, men Kain spørger, hvad der dog ikke ville være sket, hvis han ikke havde grebet ind. Og det får Kain til yderlige at spørge: Hvad er det for en slags Gud, der kan finde på at bede en far om at ofre sin søn?      Nobelpristager José Saramago døde i 2010 i en alder af 88 år. Kain blev dermed den sidste roman fra hans hånd. Kain er skrevet med Saramagos velkendte humor, underfundighed, menneskeklogskab og -varme.

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile, over the sea to Genoa and up to northern Italy where, like Hannibal's elephants before him, he must cross the snowy Alps.

En bilist standser for rødt. Og da lyset skifter, rører han sig ikke. Han er pludselig blevet blind. Et venligt medmenneske hjælper bilisten med at komme hjem. Næste dag er også hjælperen blevet blind. Det er begyndelsen på en uforklarlig epedemi, som snart fører til kaos, rædsel og brutalitet. Det ukendte og skræmmende sætter mekanismer i gang, som fjerner dannelsens tynde fernis. Men til trods for blindheden er der dog stadig nogen, der 'ser' og forsøger at samle de gode kræfter. José Saramagos roman kan læses som en fabel, en realistisk fantasi med stærke politiske undertoner. Men heller ikke i denne sammenhæng mangler livet de bizarre sider, humoren og de overraskende vendinger, der er typiske for Saramagos fortællemåde. Modtager af Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1998. Pressen skriver: »Romanen hører til det absolut bedste fra den gamle mesters hånd.« – Thomas Thurah, Information »Måske Saramagos vigtigste og mest interessante bog. Hans sprog er det rigeste, mest indfaldsrige og fantasifulde, der skrives inden for det portugisiske område.« – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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. For inspiration H. takes a trip to Italy to contemplate the works of the great artists, but when his friend back home is arrested by the secret police of Salazar's regime, H.

A novel that follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, it charts the lives of the Mau-Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background.

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.

Beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, The Notebook evokes life in Saramago's beloved Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and offers meditations on the author's favorite writers. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are rendered with pointillist detail, and together demonstrate an acute understanding of our times. Characteristically critical and uncompromising, Saramago dissects the financial crisis, deplores Israel's punishment of Gaza, and reflects on the rise of Barack Obama. The Notebook is a unique journey into the personal and political world of one of the greatest writers of our time.

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.

What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon.

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose SaramagoSenhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry.

The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier.

Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerate that provides his livelihood - until it decrees that it is no longer interested in his humble wares.

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter...

"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear..."

In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength.