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Cain by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is there in time to save Abraham from sacrificing Isaac when God's angel arrives late after a wing malfunction. Written in the last years of Saramago' ...Show more
Death at Intervals by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. his understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders if there s no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are re ...Show more
Raised from the Ground by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives of the family in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the ...Show more
Skylight by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world; and the beautiful typist whos ...Show more
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