This is a skeptic’s journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saram...

Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches t...

In this “ingenious” novel (New York Times) by “one of Europe’s most original and remarkable writers” (Los Angeles Times), a proofreader’s deliberate slip ...

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to V...

Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confi...

Señor Jose is a junior employee of the Main Archives of the Civil Registry Office. He has an unusual and harmless hobby - he collects information about one h...

José Saramago is one of the greatest writers of modern Portugal, laureate of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, author of the infamous “Gospel of Jesus.” Ra...

In this novel the reader will meet the heroes of “Blindness” who have regained their sight. In his favorite parable style, Saramago essentially builds a mode...

José Saramago is the greatest writer of modern Portugal, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. “Blindness” is one of his most famous books, a kind...

“Ears of corn and trees rise from the ground, we know this, animals that run across the fields, birds that fly above them rise. People rise up with their hop...

“The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis” is a novel that, like Fowles’ “The Magus,” has become a cult favorite for European literature. This is a great game, ...