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Cain by Jose Saramago
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jos‚ Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, he again provoked the outrage of the Catholic church with Cain, a satirical and imaginative re-telling of stories from the Old Testament. Written in th ...Show more
Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This 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 ar ...Show more
Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
$32.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the ...Show more
Raised from the Ground by Jose Saramago
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1980, Saramago's prizewinning novel "Raised from the Ground" follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, Saramago cha ...Show more
Seeing by Jose Saramago
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A major new novel by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature! Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an exte ...Show more
Skylight by Jose Saramago
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Called 'the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English. Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to mak ...Show more
The Double by Jose Saramago
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality ...Show more
The Double by Jose Saramago (tr Margaret Jull Costa)
$34.95 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
A major new novel by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. What happens when Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a professor of history, discovers at thirty-eight that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him, but not related by blood at all. How do we know who we are? What do w ...Show more
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Solomon the elephant's life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. It's a nice idea, since it avoids the Portuguese king offending his Luth ...Show more
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Solomon the elephant's life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. It's a nice idea, since it avoids the Portuguese king offending his Luth ...Show more
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