Jose Saramago - Novels & Memoir (12 books)

JOSÉ DE SOUSA SARAMAGO (1922 - 2010) was a Portuguese writer, journalist and playwright. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel committee praised his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony", and his "modern skepticism" about official truths.

More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the greatest living novelist" and considered him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praised "the distinctive tone to his fiction . . . because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."

In addition to the individual novels listed below, THE COLLECTED NOVELS contains these other works: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST (1994); THE STONE RAFT (1995); and THE HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF LISBON (1997).


All the following books are in EPUB format (CAIN is also in PDF):

* ALL THE NAMES (Harcourt, 2000). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

* BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA (Harcourt, 1987). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

* BLINDNESS (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1997). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

* CAIN (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. -- EPUB + PDF

* THE CAVE (Harcourt, 2002). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

* THE COLLECTED NOVELS OF JOSÉ SARAMAGO (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).

* THE ELEPHANT'S JOURNEY (Harvill Secker, 2010). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

* SMALL MEMORIES (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

* THE TALE OF THE UNKNOWN ISLAND (Harcourt, 1999). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

* THE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS (Harcourt, 1992). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.