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Biographical note
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.Marvellous, seriously witty, erotic and edgily surreal
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
Saramago is one of Europe's most original and remarkable writers...his writing is imbued with the spirit of comic enquiry, meditative pessimism and a quietly transforming energy that turns the indefinite into the unforgettable
- Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
This cryptic, ingenious novel...is never dull or humourless... No candidate for [the Nobel Prize] has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist who was born in 1922 but was in his mid-50s before he started to publish the fiction that has won him an international reputation
- Edmund White, New York Times
A book filled with lyrical and intellectual rewards
- Bill Marx, Boston Globe
This hypnotic tale is a great comic romp through history, language and the imagination
Publishers Weekly