José Saramago

La historia de amor más intensa de la literatura portuguesa ahora la podemos encontrar dentro de la Biblioteca José Saramago, colección dedicada al Premio Nobel de 1998. En el ambiente opresivo, cerrado y polvoriento de la Conservaduría General del Registro Civil trabaja como escribiente don José, un soltero solitario que un buen día decide crear su particular registro de personas famosas. No contento con los datos que le proporcionan...

An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.

Tras la muerte de su marido, Maria Leonor, madre de dos hijos, se siente abrumada ante las dificultades para administrar su hacienda en el Alentejo, las expectativas de la sociedad y el ferreo control de su entorno. Su corazon esta atormentado por un pecado secreto: a pesar del duelo, su deseo no se ha apagado.

An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress.

Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.

The Nobel Prize–winning author explores his homeland in “this monumental work, a literary hybrid” of cultural history, literary nonfiction, and travelogue (Publishers Weekly).
 
In 1979, José Saramago decided to write a book called Journey to Portugal—and dedicated himself to obtaining the fullest meaning of his title. More than merely journeying in or through his native...