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201 Portuguese Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses, Alphabetically Arrangedby John J. NittiISBN 0812003306 (0-8120-0330-6)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Alchemistby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0060834838 (0-06-083483-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist'Book summary:PAULO COELHO'S enchanted novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicityand inspired wisdom . is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egiptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids.... [via]
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- The Alchemist: ISBN 0061122416 (0-06-112241-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Alchemist: ISBN 0062502182 (0-06-250218-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Alchemist: ISBN 0060887966 (0-06-088796-6)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco - The Alchemist: ISBN 0613334582 (0-613-33458-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Alchemist: ISBN 0783811950 (0-7838-1195-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Alchemist: ISBN 0060834838 (0-06-083483-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- The Alchemist: ISBN 0061122416 (0-06-112241-6)
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The Alchemist/a Fable About Following Your Dreamby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0062502174 (0-06-250217-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist/a Fable About Following Your Dream'Book summary:Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson [via]
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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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Baltasar and Blimundaby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156005204 (0-15-600520-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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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]
Collins Dictionary English-Portuguese / Portugues-Inglesby Harper CollinsISBN 0007208758 (0-00-720875-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Collins Gem Portuguese Dictionary: English Portuguese/Portuguese EnglishISBN 0004587138 (0-00-458713-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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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 Alquimistaby Paulo CoelhoISBN 9700508609 (970-05-0860-9)
Softcover, Giron Spanish Books Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista'Book summary:La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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El Alquimista / The Alchemistby Paulo CoelhoISBN 9685957843 (968-5957-84-3)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista / The Alchemist'Book summary:La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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El Cuento De LA Isla Desconocidaby Jose SaramagoISBN 8466304592 (84-663-0459-2)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura
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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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Essential Portuguese Grammarby Alexander Da R. PristaISBN 0486216500 (0-486-21650-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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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)
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The Illustrated Alchemistby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke, MoebiusISBN 006019250X (0-06-019250-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Alchemist'Book summary:Amazon.co.uk Review Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sense a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalucian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." [via]
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La Caverna/the Caveby Jose Saramago, Pilar Del RioISBN 846630679X (84-663-0679-X)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Langenscheidt's Pocket Portuguese Dictionaryby Langenscheidt StaffISBN 0887291104 (0-88729-110-4)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Langenscheidt's Pocket Portuguese Dictionary'Book summary:Pocket Portuguese-English, English-Portuguese Dictionary is a convenient reference for everyday use containing a comprehensive vocabulary with many new words and a wealth of idiomatic expressions, full pronunciation of Brazilian and English entries, and a useful appendix with Portuguese and Brazilian weights and measures. Around 43,000 references. [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)
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Seeingby Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156032732 (0-15-603273-2)
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The Stone Raftby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156004011 (0-15-600401-1)
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The Tale of the Unknown Islandby Jose SaramagoISBN 1860466907 (1-86046-690-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of the Unknown Island'Book summary:"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat."
Even without the "Once upon a time," it's clear from the opening sentence of José Saramago's mischievous and wise The Tale of the Unknown Island that we have entered a somewhat fractured fairy tale. Of course, it could be argued that all of his works are, in some form or another, fairy tales, from the whimsical, revisionist History of the Siege of Lisbon to the darker dystopia of Blindness. Originally published as a short story in Portugal, Unknown Island contains all of the elements Saramago is famous for--dry wit, a seemingly simple plot that works on many levels, and an idiosyncratic use of punctuation, among other things. It begins as a satire concerned with the absurdity of bureaucracy as supplicants arrive at the king's door for petitions while the king himself waits by the door for favors:
Since the king spent all his time sitting at the door for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear, and only when the continuous pounding of the bronze doorknocker became not just deafening, but positively scandalous, disturbing the peace of the neighborhood (people would start muttering, What kind of king is he if he won't even answer the door), only then would he order the first secretary to go and find out what the supplicant wanted, since there seemed no way of silencing him.
On this particular occasion, the man at the door asks for a boat so that he can search for an unknown island. When the king assures him that all the islands have already been discovered, he refuses to believe it, explaining that one must exist "simply because there can't possibly not be an unknown island." A palace cleaning woman overhears the conversation, and when the king finally grants his supplicant a boat, she leaves the royal residence via the door of decisions and follows the would-be explorer. Saramago then moves from satire to allegory as his two dreamers prepare for their voyage of discovery--and nearly miss the forest for the trees. The Tale of the Unknown Island packs more charm and meaning into 50 tiny pages than most novels accomplish at five times the length. Readers already familiar with the Nobel Prize-winning Saramago will find everything they love about his longer works economically sized; for those who have not yet experienced the pleasures of his remarkable imagination, Unknown Island provides a charming introduction. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of The Tale of the Unknown Island:
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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 Alquimistaby Paulo CoehloISBN 9700513866 (970-05-1386-6)
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El Alquimista / The Alchemistby Paulo CoelhoISBN 0062511408 (0-06-251140-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista / The Alchemist'Book summary:La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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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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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensayo Sobre La Lucidez/seeing'Book summary:What would happen if an entire population decided to cast a blank vote in their town elections? In this new novel, a policeman and the woman who was able to maintain her sight in the novel Blindness, are samples of the moral heights that these anonymous citizens are able to reach when they decide to exert their freedom. Saramago, a writer who has become the awakening conscience of a time blinded by the mechanisms of power, sends out an alert: "There may be a day when we will have to ask, Who has signed this in my name?" That day may very well be today.
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)
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Evangelio Segun Jesucristo/the Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose Saramago, Basilio LosadaISBN 8466300651 (84-663-0065-1)
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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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› 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 one's own identity: How do we know who we are? What does identity consist of? What defines us as individuals and as unique people? Can we assume that our voice, our characteristics, even the smallest distinctive mark is repeated in another person? In this book, Saramago raises these questions and once again explores the depths of the soul. [via]
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Libro Del Desasosiego De Berbardo Soaresby Fernando PessoaISBN 8432215066 (84-322-1506-6)
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Memorial Del Convento/baltazar And Blimundaby Jose SaramagoISBN 8420484385 (84-204-8438-5)
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Todos Los Nombres/all the NamesISBN 8420430714 (84-204-3071-4)
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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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A Caverna: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722113666 (972-21-1366-6)
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Collins Gem Portuguese DictionaryISBN 0004724097 (0-00-472409-7)
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Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722110217 (972-21-1021-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira: Romance'Book summary:Um homem fica cego, inexplicavelmente, quando se encontra no seu carro no meio do trânsito. A cegueira alastra como «um rastilho de pólvora». Uma cegueira colectiva. Romance contundente. Saramago a ver mais longe. Personagens sem nome. Um mundo com as contradições da espécie humana. Não se situa em nenhum tempo específico. É um tempo que pode ser ontem, hoje ou amanhã. As ideias a virem ao de cima, sempre na escrita de Saramago. A alegoria. O poder da palavra a abrir os olhos, face ao risco de uma situação terminal generalizada. A arte da escrita ao serviço da preocupação cívica.» (Diário de Notícias, 9 de Outubro de 1998) [via]
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Ensaio Sobre a Lucidez: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722116088 (972-21-1608-8)
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Harper Collins Portuguese Dictionary: Portuguese-English English-Portugueseby Harper CollinsISBN 0062737481 (0-06-273748-1)
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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 Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722105248 (972-21-0524-8)
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Todos Os Nomes: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 972211137X (972-21-1137-X)
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L'effet Pervers: Le Naufrage Des Democratiesby Michel CollinISBN 2910188132 (2-910188-13-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'effet Pervers: Le Naufrage Des Democraties'Book summary:253pages. 13,1cm x 20,6cm x 2,1cm. Broché. L'Alchimiste est le récit d'une quête, celle de Santiago, un jeune berger andalou parti à la recherche d'un trésor enfoui au pied des Pyramides. Dans le désert, initié par l'Alchimiste, il apprendra à écouter son coeur, à lire les signes du destin et, par-dessus tout, à aller au bout de son rêve. Destiné à l'enfant que chaque être cache en soi, L'Alchimiste est un merveilleux conte philosophique, que l'on compare souvent au Petit Prince, de Saint-Exupéry, et à Jonathan Livingston le Goéland, de Richard Bach. Le levant s'était mis à souffler. Il amenait les Maures sans doute, mais il apportait aussi l'odeur du désert. Il apportait la sueur et les songes des hommes qui étaient partis en quête de l'Inconnu, en quête d'or, d'aventures, et de pyramides. Alors le jeune berger andalou se prit à envier la liberté du vent et comprit qu'il pourrait, comme lui, traverser les pays et trouver sa Légende personnelle. Destiné à l'enfant que chaque être cache en lui, L'Alchimiste est un merveilleux conte philosophique qui nous guide sur la voie d'un trésor oublié. Et des terres noires andalouses aux mystères de l'Egypte, déchiffrant les augures du ciel, le lecteur trouvera lui aussi le secret de l'Alchimie. [via]
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