Jose Saramago - Novels, Short Stories & Memoir (19 books)

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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."

This updated collection includes several new works and many improved editions, including THE DOUBLE (2002), the basis for the 2013 thriller "Enemy" directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Jake Gyllenhaal.


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).

* DEATH WITH INTERRUPTIONS (Harcourt, 2008). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

* THE DOUBLE (Harcourt, 2005). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

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

* THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST (Harcourt, 1994). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

* THE HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF LISBON (Harcourt, 1997). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

* THE LIVES OF THINGS: Short Stories (Harcourt, 2012). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

* MANUAL OF PAINTING & CALLIGRAPHY (Harcourt, 2012). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

* RAISED FROM THE GROUND (Harcourt, 2012). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

* SEEING (Harcourt, 2006). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

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

* THE STONE RAFT (Harcourt, 1995). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

* 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.