Giovanni Pontiero (1932–1996) was the ablest translator of twentieth century literature in Portuguese and one of its most ardent advocates. He was the principal translator into English of the works of José Saramago and was awarded the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for his translation of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.
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Jose Saramago: History of the Siege of Lisbon
A proofreader realizes his power to edit the truth on a whim, in a “brilliantly original” novel by a Nobel Prize winner (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Raimundo Silva is a …
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Jose Saramago: Collected Novels of Jose Saramago
This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago, with an introductory essay by …
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€26.62
Jose Saramago: Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
A disgruntled portrait artist in 1970s Portugal turn to writing in the Nobel Prize-winning author’s debut novel, now available in English translation.Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was Jose …
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Clarice Lispector: Selected Cronicas
‘Clarice Lispector was a born writer….she writes with sensuous verve, bringing her earliest passions into adult life intact, along with a child’s undiminished capacity for wonder.’—The New York Tim …
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Clarice Lispector: The Foreign Legion
‘A radiant beauty of a writer.’—The Los Angeles Times
The Foreign Legion is a collection in two parts, gathering both stories and chronicles, and it offers wonderful evidence of Clarice Lispector’s …
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€15.99
Jose Saramago: Gospel According to Jesus Christ
A fictional account of the life of Christ “illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry”—from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Skylight (Los Angeles Times Book Review). …
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€22.87
Jos Saramago: Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. begins an affair with his subject s secretary. …
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€8.99
José Saramago: The Lives of Things
Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of Jos� Saramago’s earliest stories from the beginning of his writing career attests to the novelist’s …
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