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The Lives of Things

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By (author): Jose Saramago

Translated by: Giovanni Pontiero

Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of José Saramago's earliest stories from the beginning of his writing career attests to the novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Each tale is a wicked, surreal take on life under dictatorship: in 'Embargo' a man drives around a city that is slowly running out of petrol; 'The Chair' recounts what happens when dictator Salazar falls off his chair and dies; in the Kafkaesque 'Things' the life of a civil servant is threatened as objects start to go missing. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 182g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 07 May 2013
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781781680865

About Jose Saramago

The Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago was a novelist playwright and journalist. His numerous books including the bestselling All the Names Blindness and The Cave have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as one of the world's most influential writers. He died in June 2010.Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the author of Foucault's Pendulum The Name of the Rose and other international bestsellers. He lives in Milan Italy.Daniel Hahn is a writer editor researcher and translator. His translations include Creole (2002) The Book of Chameleons (2006) My Father's Wives (2008) and Rainy Season (2009) by Angolan novelist Jose? Eduardo Agualusa.

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