Published by Vintage Classics, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£8.99
Author:
Jose Saramago
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781860466847
£8.99
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EAN: 9781860466847
Published: 7 Feb 2008
A retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son not of God, but of Joseph. In the desert it is not Satan, but God that Christ tussles with, an autocrat with whom he has an unbalanced and unsettled relationship.
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Profound and poignant
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José Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and has been a full-time writer since 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and ten novels, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as the most influential Portuguese writer of his generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998
