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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. IN UK CINEMAS NOVEMBER 2008.
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922 in the small rural village of Azinhaga, he was in his fifties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, which included plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in June 2010.
A major new novel by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature
A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.
A reissue of Saramago's fictionalized account of the life of Jesus
'The Double will become a classic' Spectator
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature--Vintage Lead Fiction title for November'A novel with impact- hope and charm' Independent