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- ISBN 9781860466847
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 1999
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jesus of Nazareth grows up burdened by guilt and destiny.
Set in first-century Judea under Roman rule, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ reimagines the life of Jesus.
Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil, a kindly and necessary evil, but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father.
By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth.
‘An original, wild, and beautiful book’ Times Literary Supplement
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
