In a country that remains unnamed, something unseen since the beginning of time is happening. Death decides to stop its tireless labors - and people simply s...

The novel Cain (2009) is the last book by José Saramago, the great Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature, who passed away in 2010. In his wo...

“Memories of a Monastery” is usually compared with “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco, released at the same time; Saramago’s novel was also translated int...

One of the most scandalous books of the 20th century, translated into all European languages. The Church dubbed it “a lampoon of the New Testament,” since th...

The collection of everyday anecdotes and teachings “Stone Raft” in an allegorical form tells about the relationship between Europe and Portugal, “which will ...

In an unnamed country on the first day of the new year, people stop dying. Amid the general public, there is great celebration: flags are hung out on balc...

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