Description: For Saramago, the life of Jesus and the story of His Passion are things of this Earth: a child crying, a gust of wind, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat or the bark of a dog, a prayer uttered in the gray morning light. This beautifully rendered work of prose by one of Europe's most respected writers is a defiance of the authority of God the Father, but not a denial.
Brief description:
JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Review Quotes:
"Illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion and poetry."--Los Angeles Times Book Review ?"Enough to assure [Saramago] a place in the universal library and in human memory."--The Nation "Fiction that engages the mind as well as the spirit."--Kirkus "Mixes magic, myth, and reality into a potent brew."--Booklist