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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.Extraordinary...a tour de force of thought-experiment and feeling-experiment
Observer
This is a shattering work by a literary master...a book of real stature
Boston Globe
Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet.
Independent
He writes a prose of particularly luminous intensity, brilliantly rendered into English by his regular translator Giovanni Pontiero...Sweepingly ambitious
The Times
A powerful fable
Scotsman
Saramago's exuberant imagination, capriciousness and clear-sightedness find full expression in this engaging work
<b>Blistering, unrelenting, horrifying, yet still somehow luminously redemptive</b>
White Review, *Books of the Year*