Román Baltasar a Blimunda se odehrává v 18. století: dějištěm je portugalský královský dvůr stejně jako prostředí nejchudších vrstev. Skvěle zvládnutá historická látka (vystupují tu historické... Čítať ďalej
What happens when Deadline M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And... Čítať ďalej
A driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the... Čítať ďalej
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant novel poses the question--what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation... Čítať ďalej
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters... Čítať ďalej
A city is hit by an epidemic of -white blindness- which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping... Čítať ďalej
