| Skylight Contributor(s): Saramago, José (Author), Costa, Margaret Jull (Author) |
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ISBN: 0544570375 ISBN-13: 9780544570375 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014034511 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The inklings of Saramago's style swell throughout . . . Skylight shines." -- New York Times "Unmistakably Saramago . . . There is no shortage of wonders to be found in Skylight]." -- Washington Post "A fascinating and startlingly mature work . . . The book is a gem." -- Boston Globe Lisbon, late 1940s. The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends meet: Silvio the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona L dia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Humble salesman Emilio's Spanish wife is in a permanent rage; beautiful Claudinha's boss lusts for her; Justina and her womanizer husband live at war with each other. Happy marriages, abusive relationships, jealousy, gossip, love--Skylight is a portrait of ordinary people painted by the master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardship of the modern world. "The gifted young Saramago makes these characters click together in a way that's extremely sympathetic." -- NPR, All Things Considered "It was only a matter of time before a work of such extraordinary honesty and perception would make its way into the world." -- San Francisco Chronicle |
Contributor Bio(s): Costa, Margaret Jull: - MARGARET JULL COSTA has established herself as the premier translator of Portuguese literature into English today.Saramago, Jose: - JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. |