Skylight

Called ''the book lost and found in time'' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago''s earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers'' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English. 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; the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music; and the beautiful typist whose boss can''t keep his eyes off her. Poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip and love - Skylight brings together all the joys and grief of ordinary people.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Saramago, José Saramago
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation), Costa Margaret Jull (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780099581826
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958182-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Portugiesische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Portugal, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Lisbon, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1940 to c 1949, C 1945 To C 1960, Classic fiction: general and literary