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Informationen zum Autor Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922 in the small rural village of Azinhaga, he was in his fifties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, which included plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in June 2010. Klappentext Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes and jewellery; and the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Saramago, José Saramago
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2014
• EAN: 9781846557330
• ISBN: 978-1-84655-733-0
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 227 mm x 35 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature