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Alentejo Blueby Monica AliISBN 0743293037 (0-7432-9303-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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All the Namesby Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156010593 (0-15-601059-3)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Names'Book summary:"As soon as you cross the threshold, you notice the smell of old paper." The Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths is the setting for All the Names, Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago's seventh novel to be translated into English. The names in question are those of every man, woman, and child ever born, married, or buried in the unnamed city where the Registry is located, and are the special province of Senhor José who is employed there as a clerk. Over the centuries, the paper trail in this hopelessly arcane bureaucracy has grown so monumental, so disorganized that
one poor researcher became lost in the labyrinthine catacombs of the archive of the dead, having come to the Central Registry in order to carry out some genealogical research he had been commissioned to undertake. He was discovered, almost miraculously, after a week, starving, thirsty, exhausted, delirious, having survived thanks to the desperate measure of ingesting enormous quantities of old documents that neither lingered in the stomach nor nourished, since they melted in the mouth without requiring any chewing.
The nondescript Senhor José labors long and thanklessly among the archives; his is a tepid, lonely life with only one small hobby to leaven his leisure hours: he collects "news items about those people in his country who, for good reasons and bad, had become famous." One night, it occurs to him that "something fundamental was missing from his collection, that is, the origin, the root, the source, in other words, the actual birth certificate of these famous people"--and that the information is within easy reach on the other side of a connecting door that separates his meager lodgings from the Registry itself. And so begins Senhor José's midnight raids on the stacks as he shuttles between the Registry and his own room bearing precious records that he carefully copies before returning them to their rightful places. Still, this minor aberration might have remained the clerk's only transgression if not for a simple act of fate: one night, along with his celebrity records, he accidentally picks up a birth certificate belonging to an ordinary, unknown woman--a woman who becomes suddenly more important than all the others precisely because she is unknown. Celebrity is cast aside as Senhor José begins a search for this mysterious quarry--a quest that will lead him into conflict with his superior, the Registrar, and ensnare him in the kind of messy personal histories and tangled relationships he has thus far avoided in his own life.A recurring theme in many of Saramago's novels is the very human struggle between withdrawal and connection. Whether it is the Iberian peninsula literally breaking off from the rest of Europe in The Stone Raft or an entire country afflicted by a devastating malady in Blindness, he is fascinated by the effects of isolation on the human soul and, correspondingly, the redemptive power of compassion. All the Names continues to mine this rich vein as the repressed clerk follows his unknown Ariadne's thread out of the labyrinth of his own strangled psyche and into life. Readers will find here Saramago's trademark love of the absurd, his brilliant imagery and idiosyncratic punctuation, as well as the unflinching yet tender honesty with which he chronicles the human condition. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Arm of the Starfishby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374303967 (0-374-30396-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arm of the Starfish'Book summary:When Adam Eddington, a gifted marine biology student, makes the acquaintance of blond and beautiful Kali Cutter at Kennedy International Airport on his way to Portugal to spend the summer working for the renowned scientist Dr. O'Keefe, he has no idea that this seemingly chance meeting will set into motion a chain of events he will be unable to stop.
Caught between Kali's seductive wiles and the trusting adoration of Dr. O'Keefe's daughter, Poly, Adam finds himself enmeshed in a deadly power struggle between two groups of people, only one of which can have right on its side. As the ddanger escalates, Adam must make a decision that could affect the entire world--which side is he on? [via]More editions of The Arm of the Starfish:
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Baltasar and Blimundaby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156005204 (0-15-600520-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baltasar and Blimunda'Book summary:From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a brilliant...enchanting novel (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.[via] -
Blindnessby Jose SaramagoISBN 1860466850 (1-86046-685-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blindness'Book summary:In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught in a mist or had fallen into a milky sea." A Good Samaritan offers to drive him home (and later steals his car); his wife takes him by taxi to a nearby eye clinic where they are ushered past other patients into the doctor's office. Within a day the man's wife, the taxi driver, the doctor and his patients, and the car thief have all succumbed to blindness. As the epidemic spreads, the government panics and begins quarantining victims in an abandoned mental asylum--guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot anyone who tries to escape. So begins Portuguese author José Saramago's gripping story of humanity under siege, written with a dearth of paragraphs, limited punctuation, and embedded dialogue minus either quotation marks or attribution. At first this may seem challenging, but the style actually contributes to the narrative's building tension, and to the reader's involvement.
In this community of blind people there is still one set of functioning eyes: the doctor's wife has affected blindness in order to accompany her husband to the asylum. As the number of victims grows and the asylum becomes overcrowded, systems begin to break down: toilets back up, food deliveries become sporadic; there is no medical treatment for the sick and no proper way to bury the dead. Inevitably, social conventions begin to crumble as well, with one group of blind inmates taking control of the dwindling food supply and using it to exploit the others. Through it all, the doctor's wife does her best to protect her little band of blind charges, eventually leading them out of the hospital and back into the horribly changed landscape of the city.
Blindness is in many ways a horrific novel, detailing as it does the total breakdown in society that follows upon this most unnatural disaster. Saramago takes his characters to the very edge of humanity and then pushes them over the precipice. His people learn to live in inexpressible filth, they commit acts of both unspeakable violence and amazing generosity that would have been unimaginable to them before the tragedy. The very structure of society itself alters to suit the circumstances as once-civilized, urban dwellers become ragged nomads traveling by touch from building to building in search of food. The devil is in the details, and Saramago has imagined for us in all its devastation a hell where those who went blind in the streets can never find their homes again, where people are reduced to eating chickens raw and packs of dogs roam the excrement-covered sidewalks scavenging from corpses.
And yet in the midst of all this horror Saramago has written passages of unsurpassed beauty. Upon being told she is beautiful by three of her charges, women who have never seen her, "the doctor's wife is reduced to tears because of a personal pronoun, an adverb, a verb, an adjective, mere grammatical categories, mere labels, just like the two women, the others, indefinite pronouns, they too are crying, they embrace the woman of the whole sentence, three graces beneath the falling rain." In this one woman Saramago has created an enduring, fully developed character who serves both as the eyes and ears of the reader and as the conscience of the race. And in Blindness he has written a profound, ultimately transcendent meditation on what it means to be human. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of Blindness:
- Blindness: ISBN 1860462979 (1-86046-297-9)
Hardcover, Harvill Press - Blindness: ISBN 0156007754 (0-15-600775-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books - Blindness: ISBN 0151002517 (0-15-100251-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Blindness: ISBN 0786218347 (0-7862-1834-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Blindness: ISBN 1860466850 (1-86046-685-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
- Blindness: ISBN 1860462979 (1-86046-297-9)
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The Book of Disquietby Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 1852427582 (1-85242-758-2)
Softcover, Serpent's Tail Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Disquiet'Book summary:[via]First published in 1982, this is the "factless autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or "heteronyms" with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of his absence. The circular text returns again and again to a protagonist desperate to find out who he is.More editions of The Book of Disquiet:
- The Book of Disquiet: ISBN 1857543017 (1-85754-301-7)
Softcover, Carcanet Press, Limited - The Book of Disquiet: ISBN 1852422041 (1-85242-204-1)
Softcover, Serpents Tail - The Book of Disquiet: ISBN 0141183047 (0-14-118304-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Book of Disquiet: ISBN 0704301539 (0-7043-0153-9)
Softcover, Texas Bookman - The Book of Disquiet: ISBN 0679402349 (0-679-40234-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Book of Disquiet: ISBN 1852427582 (1-85242-758-2)
Softcover, Serpent's Tail Limited
- The Book of Disquiet: ISBN 1857543017 (1-85754-301-7)
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The Book of Disquietby Alfred MacAdam, Fernando Pessoa, Alfred Mac AdamISBN 1878972278 (1-878972-27-8)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Disquiet'Book summary:The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under "heteronyms." More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers, life spans, even horoscopes. In The Book of Disquiet, Pessoa came as close as he ever would to autobiography. Left on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk, the fragments that make up The Book of Disquiet record in disjunct entries a vast interior landscape and daily minutiae, making for a discontinuous, gently unhinged monologue in daybook form. [via]
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The Book of Disquietudeby Fernando Pessoa, Richard ZenithISBN 1878818651 (1-878818-65-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Disquietude'Book summary:complete edition Pessoa's posthumous masterpiece [via]
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The Caveby Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156028794 (0-15-602879-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cave'Book summary:José Saramago is a master at pacing. Readers unfamiliar with the work of this Portuguese Nobel Prize winner would do well to begin with The Cave, a novel of ideas, shaded with suspense. Spare and pensive, The Cave follows the fortunes of an aging potter, Cipriano Algor, beginning with his weekly delivery of plates to the Center, a high-walled, windowless shopping complex, residential community, and nerve center that dominates the region. What sells at the Center will sell everywhere else, and what the Center rejects can barely be given away in the surrounding towns and villages. The news for Cipriano that morning isn't good. Half of his regular pottery shipment is rejected, and he is told that the consumers now prefer plastic tableware. Over the next week, he and his grown daughter Marta grieve for their lost craft, but they gradually open their eyes to the strange bounty of their new condition: a stray dog adopts them, and a lovely widow enters Cipriano's life. When they are invited to live at the Center, it seems ungracious to refuse, but there are strange developments under the complex and a troubling increase in security, and Cipriano changes all their fates by deciding to investigate. In Saramago's able hands, what might have become a dry social allegory is a delicately elaborated story of individualism and unexpected love. --Regina Marler [via]
Cooking of Spain and Portugalby Peter S. FeiblemanISBN 0809400391 (0-8094-0039-1)
Hardcover, Time Life Education
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The Crime of Father Amaroby Eca De QuéirosISBN 1857541014 (1-85754-101-4)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crime of Father Amaro'Book summary:Shows the author as an acute observer of life in a provincial cathedral city and a sharp critic of the clerical establishment, moved by the predicament of women - tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their imaginations in the illusions of romance. [via]
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The Crime of Father Amaroby Eca Deditorqueiros, Nan FlanaganISBN 1857546849 (1-85754-684-9)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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The Crime of Father Amaroby Margaret Jull Costa, Jose Maria Eca De QueirosISBN 0811215326 (0-8112-1532-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crime of Father Amaro'Book summary:An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture.
Eça de Queirós''s novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while guests at a birthday celebration are "wildly dancing a polka." Young Father Amaro (whose name means "bitter" in Portuguese) arrives in Leira and soon lusts afterand is lusted after bybudding Amelia, dewy-lipped, devout daughter of Sao Joaneira who has taken in Father Amaro as a lodger. What ensues is a secret love affair amidst a host of compelling minor characters: Canon Dias, glutton and Sao Joaneira's lover; Dona Maria da Assuncao, a wealthy widow with a roomful of religious images, agog at any hint of sex; Joao Eduardo, repressed atheist, free-thinker and suitor to Amelia; Father Brito, "the strongest and most stupid priest in the diocese;" the administrator of the municipal council who spies at a neighbor's wife through binoculars for hours every day. Eça's incisive critique flies like a shattering mirror, jabbing everything from the hypocrisy of a rich and powerful Church, to the provincialism of men and women in Portuguese society of the time, to the ineptness of politics or science as antidotes to the town's ills. What lurks within Eça's narrative is a religion of tolerance, wisdom, and equality nearly forgotten. Margaret Jull Costa has rendered an exquisite translation and provides an informative introduction to a story that truly spans all ages. [via]More editions of The Crime of Father Amaro:
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The Doubleby Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156032589 (0-15-603258-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double'Book summary:Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment he sees a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like the man he was five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face. He sleeps badly.[via]
Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he establishes the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a dark meditation on identity and, perhaps, on the crass assumption behind cloning-that we are merely our outward appearance rather than the sum of our experiences. -
El Hombre Duplicado/the Doubleby Jose Saramago, Pilar Del RioISBN 8466312803 (84-663-1280-3)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Hombre Duplicado/the Double'Book summary:Saramago tells the story of a history professor that, by chance, discovers in a rented movie a man identical to him, and decides to go in search of him. This novel poses the essential questions of life and the search of ones own identity: What defines us as unique people? Can we assume that our voice, our characteristics, or even the smallest distinctive mark are not repeated in another person? In this book, Saramago once again explores the depths of the soul. [via]
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Ensayo Sobre LA Cegueraby Jose SaramagoISBN 8495501074 (84-95501-07-4)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensayo Sobre LA Ceguera'Book summary:A driver waiting at a red light suddenly becomes blind. So does his wife and the doctor who examines them. They are the first cases of an "epidemic" of blindness. A terrifying allegory of the dark times that we are living as we aproach at the new millennium.
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Una ceguera blanca se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos por la ciudad, los ciegos deben enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la especie humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio. [via]More editions of Ensayo Sobre LA Ceguera:
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Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera/blindnessby Jose SaramagoISBN 9681908716 (968-19-0871-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera/blindness'Book summary:A driver waiting at a red light suddenly becomes blind. So does his wife and the doctor who examines them. They are the first cases of an "epidemic" of blindness. A terrifying allegory of the dark times that we are living as we approach the new millennium. [via]
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Evangelio Segun Jesucristo/the Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose SaramagoISBN 8420484423 (84-204-8442-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose SaramagoISBN 186046095X (1-86046-095-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ: ISBN 1860466842 (1-86046-684-2)
Softcover, Harvill Pr - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ: ISBN 0156001411 (0-15-600141-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ: ISBN 0151367000 (0-15-136700-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ: ISBN 186046095X (1-86046-095-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ: ISBN 1860466842 (1-86046-684-2)
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The History of the Siege of Lisbonby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 1860461328 (1-86046-132-8)
Softcover, Harvill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Siege of Lisbon'Book summary:"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ..." The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.
Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and "stories inserted into history." The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole. [via]
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- The History of the Siege of Lisbon: ISBN 186046131X (1-86046-131-X)
Hardcover, Harvill - The History of the Siege of Lisbon: ISBN 0156006243 (0-15-600624-3)
Softcover, Harcourt - The History of the Siege of Lisbon: A Novel: ISBN 015100238X (0-15-100238-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt - The History of the Siege of Lisbon: ISBN 1860461328 (1-86046-132-8)
Softcover, Harvill
- The History of the Siege of Lisbon: ISBN 186046131X (1-86046-131-X)
Journey to Portugalby Jose SaramagoISBN 1860467040 (1-86046-704-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Cultureby Jose Saramago, Nick Caistor, Amanda HopkinsonISBN 0156007134 (0-15-600713-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture'Book summary:When José Saramago decided some twenty years ago to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has certainly succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and breadth of the country he loves dearly, Saramago brings Portugal to life as only a writer of his brilliance can. Forfeiting sources of information such as tourist guides and road maps, he scours the country with the eyes and ears of an observer fascinated by the ancient myths and history of his people. Whether an inaccessible medieval fortress set on a cliff, a wayside chapel thick with cobwebs, or a grand mansion in the city, the extraordinary places of this land come alive with kings, warriors, painters, explorers, writers, saints, and sinners. Always meticulously attentive to those elements of ancient Portugal that persist today, Saramago examines the country in its current period of rapid transition and growth.[via]
Infused with the tenderness and intelligence that have become familiar to his readers, Saramago's Journey to Portugal is an ode of love for a country and its rich traditions.More editions of Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture:
La Caverna/the Caveby Jose Saramago, Pilar Del RioISBN 846630679X (84-663-0679-X)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Lonely Planet Portugalby John King, Julia WilkinsonISBN 1740593391 (1-74059-339-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonely Planet Portugal'Book summary:From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there, chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks for nearly 30 years and as a result, has the experience and know-how similar to an older sibling's "been there" advice. The original backpacker's bible, the LP series has recently widened its reach. While still giving insights for the low-budget traveler, the books now list a wide range of accommodations and itineraries for those with less time than money.
You won't miss anything Portugal has to offer with this lively guide at your side. You'll learn where and when to eat, where to stay--from cheap pensões to renovated manor houses, important historical and cultural facts, enough Portuguese to get by, and practical tips ranging from proper attire for visiting a church to suggested itineraries. --Kathryn True [via]
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The Lusiadsby Luis Vaz De Camoes, Landeg WhiteISBN 0192801511 (0-19-280151-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lusiads'Book summary:First published in 1572, "The Lusiads" is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of "The Lusiads" is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes' narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East. The poem's twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind's knowledge of the world unites the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Yet it speaks powerfully, too, of the precariousness of power, and of the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened not only from without by enemies, but from within by loss of integrity and vision. [via]
The Lusiadsby Landeg White, Luis De CamoesISBN 0192831917 (0-19-283191-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Memorial Del Convento/baltazar And Blimundaby Jose SaramagoISBN 8466301623 (84-663-0162-3)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorial Del Convento/baltazar And Blimunda'Book summary:El rey de Portugal está preocupado, pero la promesa de construir un convento franciscano será compensada con el nacimiento de un sucesor. Mientras tanto, Baltasar Mateus, Sietesoles, intenta sobrevivir con un gancho y un espigón a falta de su mano izquierda. Blimunda, su compañera, es capaz de ver el interior de las cosas y de las personas. Con ella, todo será más llevadero. El padre Bartolomeu Lourenço quiere volar, construir la "passarola" que le lleve por encima del rey, su convento, sus súbditos y las nubes, aunque le cueste el destierro y la locura. [via]
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On Blindnessby Jose SaramagoISBN 1860462987 (1-86046-298-7)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Blindness'Book summary:In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught in a mist or had fallen into a milky sea." A Good Samaritan offers to drive him home (and later steals his car); his wife takes him by taxi to a nearby eye clinic where they are ushered past other patients into the doctor's office. Within a day the man's wife, the taxi driver, the doctor and his patients, and the car thief have all succumbed to blindness. As the epidemic spreads, the government panics and begins quarantining victims in an abandoned mental asylum--guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot anyone who tries to escape. So begins Portuguese author José Saramago's gripping story of humanity under siege, written with a dearth of paragraphs, limited punctuation, and embedded dialogue minus either quotation marks or attribution. At first this may seem challenging, but the style actually contributes to the narrative's building tension, and to the reader's involvement.
In this community of blind people there is still one set of functioning eyes: the doctor's wife has affected blindness in order to accompany her husband to the asylum. As the number of victims grows and the asylum becomes overcrowded, systems begin to break down: toilets back up, food deliveries become sporadic; there is no medical treatment for the sick and no proper way to bury the dead. Inevitably, social conventions begin to crumble as well, with one group of blind inmates taking control of the dwindling food supply and using it to exploit the others. Through it all, the doctor's wife does her best to protect her little band of blind charges, eventually leading them out of the hospital and back into the horribly changed landscape of the city.
Blindness is in many ways a horrific novel, detailing as it does the total breakdown in society that follows upon this most unnatural disaster. Saramago takes his characters to the very edge of humanity and then pushes them over the precipice. His people learn to live in inexpressible filth, they commit acts of both unspeakable violence and amazing generosity that would have been unimaginable to them before the tragedy. The very structure of society itself alters to suit the circumstances as once-civilized, urban dwellers become ragged nomads traveling by touch from building to building in search of food. The devil is in the details, and Saramago has imagined for us in all its devastation a hell where those who went blind in the streets can never find their homes again, where people are reduced to eating chickens raw and packs of dogs roam the excrement-covered sidewalks scavenging from corpses.
And yet in the midst of all this horror Saramago has written passages of unsurpassed beauty. Upon being told she is beautiful by three of her charges, women who have never seen her, "the doctor's wife is reduced to tears because of a personal pronoun, an adverb, a verb, an adjective, mere grammatical categories, mere labels, just like the two women, the others, indefinite pronouns, they too are crying, they embrace the woman of the whole sentence, three graces beneath the falling rain." In this one woman Saramago has created an enduring, fully developed character who serves both as the eyes and ears of the reader and as the conscience of the race. And in Blindness he has written a profound, ultimately transcendent meditation on what it means to be human. --Alix Wilber [via]
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OS Lusiadasby Luis De Camoes, Amelia Pinto PaisISBN 972627043X (972-627-043-X)
Hardcover, Areal
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Portugalby John Fisher, Alice Martin, Mark Ellingham, Graham KenyonISBN 1858280842 (1-85828-084-2)
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Portugal: The Rough Guideby John Fisher, Mark Ellingham, Graham Kenyon, Fischer JohnISBN 1858281806 (1-85828-180-6)
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Portuguese Seaborne Empireby C. BoxerISBN 0856359629 (0-85635-962-9)
Hardcover, Carcanet Pr
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The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825by C.R. BoxerISBN 0090979400 (0-09-097940-0)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Rough Guide to Portugalby John Fisher, Mark Ellingham, Matthew Hancock, Graham Kenyon, Rough GuidesISBN 184353438X (1-84353-438-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rough Guide To Portugal'Book summary:The Rough Guide to Portugal is the ultimate handbook to one of Europe''s most beguiling countries. The full-colour introduction includes stunning photos of the best sights and activities, from the famous resorts of the Algarve to the nightlife of Lisbon, from historic Evora to the wine lodges of Porto. There are lively accounts of all the attractions, including those well off-the-beaten-track and practical tips on outdoor activities such as exploring the country''s magnificent mountains, endless beaches and stunning national parks. In every chapter there are good maps and plans, complete with keys for all accommodation, eating and drinking establishments. Finally, in the ''contexts'' section there is unrivalled cultural background from fado to cuisine, football to history. [via]
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Softcover, Rough Guides - The Rough Guide to Portugal: ISBN 1858288770 (1-85828-877-0)
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Seeingby Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156032732 (0-15-603273-2)
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The Sin of Father Amaroby Eca De QueirosISBN 0552991341 (0-552-99134-1)
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A Small Death in Lisbonby Robert WilsonISBN 0425184234 (0-425-18423-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Stone Raftby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156004011 (0-15-600401-1)
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reisby Jose SaramagoISBN 1860465021 (1-86046-502-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis'Book summary:The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.[via]More editions of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis:
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El Ano De LA Muerte De Ricardo Reis/the Year of the Death of Ricardo ReisISBN 8466308474 (84-663-0847-4)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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La Balsa De Piedra/the Stone Raftby Jose SaramagoISBN 8466302328 (84-663-0232-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Balsa De Piedra/the Stone Raft'Book summary:A large crack along the Pyrenees separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe causing Spain and Portugal to become a great floating island. The characters on this great ship made of rock travel endlessly towards a new utopia.
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Nosotros también somos ibéricos. De la noche a la mañana Europa apareció cubierta con esta pintada.
"La balsa de piedra" parte de un audaz planteamiento narrativo. Una grieta abierta espontáneamente a lo largo de los Pirineos provoca la separación del continente europeo de toda la península Ibérica, transformándola en una gran isla flotante, moviéndose sin remos ni velas ni hélices en dirección al sur del mundo, camino de una utopía nueva: el encuentro cultural de los pueblos del otro lado del Atlántico, desafiando así el dominio sofocante que Estados Unidos de la América del Norte vienen ejerciendo en aquellos parajes.
Una visión dos veces utópica entendería esta ficción política como una metáfora mucho más generosa y humana: que Europa, toda ella, deberá trasladarse hacia el sur de manera que, en compensación por sus abusos coloniales, antiguos y modernos, ayude a equilibrar el mundo. Es decir, Europa finalmente como ética.
Los personajes de "La balsa de piedra" -dos mujeres, tres hombres y un perro- viajan incansablemente a través de la Península mientras ella va surcando el océano. El mundo está cambiando y ellos sabe que deben buscar en sí mismos las personas nuevas en que se convertirán. Eso les basta. [via]
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La Caverna/the Caveby Jose Saramago, Pilar Del RioISBN 8420442283 (84-204-4228-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Caverna/the Cave'Book summary:Una pequeña alfarería, un centro comercial gigantesco. Un mundo en rápido proceso de extinción, otro que crece y se multiplica como un juego de espejos donde no parece haber límites para la ilusión engañosa. Todos los días se extinguen especies animales y vegetales, todos los días hay profesiones que se tornan inútiles, idiomas que dejan de tener personas que los hablen, tradiciones que pierden sentido, sentimientos que se convierten en sus contrarios. Una familia de alfareros comprende que ha dejado de serle necesaria al mundo. Como una serpiente que muda de piel para poder crecer en otra que más adelante también se volverá pequeña, el centro comercial dice a la alfarería: «Muere, ya no necesito de ti». La caverna, una novela para cruzar el milenio. Con las dos novelas anteriores ¿Ensayo sobre la ceguera y Todos los nombres¿este nuevo libro forma un tríptico en que el autor deja escrita su visión del mundo actual. José Saramago (Azinhaga, 1922) es uno de los novelistas portugueses más conocidos y apreciados en el mundo entero. Desde 1993 vive en Lanzarote. En 1998 recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura. [via]
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Ensayo Sobre LA Cegueraby Jose SaramagoISBN 8420428655 (84-204-2865-5)
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Ensayo Sobre La Lucidez/seeingby Jose SaramagoISBN 9587041852 (958-704-185-2)
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Description in Spanish: Durante las elecciones municipales de una ciudad sin nombre, la mayoría de sus habitantes decide individualmente ejercer su derecho al voto de una manera inesperada. El gobierno teme que ese gesto revolucionario, capaz de socavar los cimientos de una democracia degenerada, sea producto de una conjura anarquista internacional o de grupos extremistas desconocidos. Las cloacas del poder se ponen en marcha: los culpables tienen que ser eliminados. Y si no se hallan, se inventan.
Con esta obra Saramago, un escritor que se ha convertido en la conciencia lúcida de una época cegada por los mecanismos del poder, lanza una llamada de alerta: «Puede suceder que un día tengamos que preguntarnos Quién ha firmado esto por mí». Ese día puede ser hoy. [via]
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El Evangelio Segun Jesucristoby Jose SaramagoISBN 9707100419 (970-710-041-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Evangelio Segun Jesucristo/the Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose Saramago, Basilio LosadaISBN 8466300651 (84-663-0065-1)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Historia Del Cerco De LisboaISBN 9681906012 (968-19-0601-2)
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El Hombre Duplicado/the Doubleby Jose Saramago, Pilar Del RioISBN 958704049X (958-704-049-X)
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Libro Del Desasosiego De Berbardo Soaresby Fernando PessoaISBN 8432215066 (84-322-1506-6)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Memorial Del Convento/baltazar And Blimundaby Jose SaramagoISBN 8420484385 (84-204-8438-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Todos Los Nombres/all the NamesISBN 8420430714 (84-204-3071-4)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Don Jose is a lonely, humble, and insignificant government worker at the office of vital statistics. As an innocent pastime, he starts collecting news about the rich and famous. When he notices gaps and contradictions in the lives of these public figures, he decides to fix them by registering fantasy events in the record books. [via]
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Todos Los Nombres/all the Namesby Jose Saramago, Pilar Del RioISBN 8495501759 (84-95501-75-9)
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Viaje a Portugalby Jose SaramagoISBN 8420427896 (84-204-2789-6)
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A Caverna: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722113666 (972-21-1366-6)
Hardcover, Editorial Caminho
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As Intermitencias Da Morte: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722117386 (972-21-1738-6)
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Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722110217 (972-21-1021-7)
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Ensaio Sobre a Lucidez: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722116088 (972-21-1608-8)
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Historia Do Cerco De Lisboaby Jose SaramagoISBN 8571640351 (85-7164-035-1)
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Livro Do Desassossegoby Fernando Pessoa, Teresa Sobral CunhaISBN 9722313304 (972-23-1330-4)
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O Crime Do Padre Amaroby Jose Maria Eca de QueirosISBN 0850515084 (0-85051-508-4)
Softcover, Luso Brazilian Books
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O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722105248 (972-21-0524-8)
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O Manual Dos Inquisidoresby Antonio Lobo AntunesISBN 9722013343 (972-20-1334-3)
Hardcover, Publicacoes Dom Quixote
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Todos Os Nomes: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 972211137X (972-21-1137-X)
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