<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for saramago jose]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for saramago jose]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/christchurch/rss/search?query=saramago%20jose&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:56:56 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Silence of Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[While fishing on the river bank, a young boy experiences a moment of growing awareness of the world around him.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1428919</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1428919</guid><category><![CDATA[PICTURE_BOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1428919037</comments><format>PICTURE_BOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death at Intervals]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there's no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are reduced to arranging funerals for dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots. Life insurance policies become meaningless. Amid the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity - eternal life. But will death's disappearance benefit the human race, or will this sudden abeyance backfire? How long can families cope with malingering elderly relatives who scratch at death's door while the portal remains firmly shut? Then, seven months later, death returns, heralded by purple envelopes informing the recipients that their time is up. Death herself is not writing personal notes giving one week's notice. However, when an envelope is unexpectedly returned to her death begins to experience strange, almost human emotions.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1578104</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1578104</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1578104037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death at Intervals]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders. Then, seven months later, death returns, heralded by purple envelopes informing the recipients that their time is up. Death herself is now writing personal notes giving one week's notice.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1692492</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1692492</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1692492037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blindness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctor's patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. This group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the unexplained good fortune that the doctor's wife has escaped the blindness.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1633319</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1633319</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1633319037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blindness]]></title><description><![CDATA["A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers--among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears--through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twientieth century, Blindness is a powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses--and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit"--Page 4 of cover]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1756822</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1756822</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1756822037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ensayo sobre la ceguera]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1476439</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1476439</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1476439037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raised From the Ground]]></title><description><![CDATA[Written in 1980, "Raised From the Ground" was the novel with which Jose Saramago first found his distinctive voice and style. It is set in the Alentejo, the rural area of Portugal where Saramago's family came from, and follows the fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family (literally, the Badweathers) from the beginning of the twentieth century through to its middle. While the First and Second World Wars rumble on in the background, Joao Mau-Tempo suffers the suicide of his father, a drunken cobbler, followed by hardship as his mother tries to make ends meet in a society where the landowners are all-powerful and the life of a hired hand is unremittingly harsh. As communist ideas start to spread among the labourers, Joao becomes politicised, but ends up being imprisoned. Nevertheless, the novel ends with optimism as, in a May Day revolution, the workers take over the land and form cooperatives. Highly political yet full of Saramago's characteristic humour and humanity, this is a novel as full of love as it is of pain. It is a vivid, moving tribute to the men and women among whom Saramago lived as a child, and a fascinating insight into the early work of this literary giant.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C754846</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C754846</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/754846037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creates the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. This book explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1684502</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1684502</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1684502037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Unexpected Light]]></title><description><![CDATA[The narrator's memories of a lost childhood paradise focus on two glorious days when he helped his uncle take some piglets to the market in Santarem. They traverse dusty roads, sleep in a barn and awake to a miraculous moonglow, and hear the animals in their "infinite conversations." The journey, the night, the wind, the light.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1447123</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1447123</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1447123037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shi ming zheng man ji]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1379918</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1379918</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[chi]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1379918037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>chi</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lizard]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a lizard appears in the neighborhood of Chiado, in Lisbon, it surprises passers-by, and mobilizes firefighters and the army. With a clear and precise style, the fable offers a multitude of senses, reaching audiences of all ages. "The Lizard" is a short story included in A Bagagem do Viajante (1973), a volume that brought together the Saramago chronicles for the newspaper A Capital and the weekly Jornal do Fund o between 1971 and 1972.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1138157</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1138157</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1138157037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manual of Painting and Calligraphy]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. Meanwhile the painting starts to fail. For inspiration H. takes a trip to Italy to contemplate the works of the great artists, but when his friend back home is arrested by the secret police of Salazar's regime, H. is pulled back to Portugal.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1109923</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1109923</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1109923037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Double]]></title><description><![CDATA[A history teacher rents a video on the recommendation of a friend. Not a great fan of cinema, he watches the film unmoved, but wakes later that night unaccountably troubled by something he has subconsciously viewed. He gets up to watch the film again and discovers, to his horror, an actor who could be his twin, identical in every way except for the moustache he himself has not worn for five years.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1109922</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1109922</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1109922037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dakhmah]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C938244</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C938244</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[per]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/938244037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>per</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skylight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon and longs for her first love, Manolo. Lidia used to work the streets, but now she's kept by Paulo, a wealthy man with a wandering eye. These are just some of the characters in this early work, completed by Saramago in 1953 but never published until now. With his characteristic compassion, depth, and wit, Saramago shows us the quiet contentment of a happy family and the infectious poison of an unhappy one. We see his characters' most intimate moments as well as the casual encounters particular to neighbors living in close proximity. Skylight is a portrait of ordinary people, painted by a master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardships of the modern world.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C873821</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C873821</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/873821037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", he has done it again with "Cain", a satire of the Old Testament. Written in the last years of Saramago's life, it tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, and forms part of Saramago's long argument with religion. The stories in this book are witty and provocative. After Adam and Eve have been cast out of Eden, Eve decides to go back and ask the angel guarding the gate if he can give her some of the fruit that is going to waste inside. The angel agrees, and although Eve swears to Adam that she offered the angel nothing in return, their first child is suspiciously blond and fair-skinned. Cain, in his wandering, overhears a strange conversation between a man named Abraham and his son Isaac - and manages to prevent the father from murdering the son. The angel appointed by God to prevent the murder arrives late due to a wing malfunction. Cain brushes off his apology. 'What would have happened if I hadn't been here?'  Cain asks, 'and what kind of god would ask a father to sacrifice his own son?' Saramago died in June 2010, shortly after the controversial Portuguese publication of Cain but before he could participate in its publication in other countries. Harvill Secker's edition of this remarkable book will be part of a tribute to Saramago's life and work which includes the gradual reissue of his previous novels as Vintage Classics.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C717439</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C717439</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/717439037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Elephant's Journey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Solomon the elephant's life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. It's a nice idea, since it avoids the Portuguese king offending his Lutheran cousin with an overtly Catholic present. But it means the poor pachyderm must travel from Lisbon to Vienna on foot the only option when transporting a large animal such a long way. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart Solomon across the dusty plains of Castile, over the sea to Genoa and up to northern Italy where, like Hannibal's elephants before him, he must cross the snowy Alps. Accompanying him is his quiet keeper, Subhro, who watches while at every place they stop people try to turn Solomon into something he is not. From worker of holy miracles to umbrella stand, the unassuming elephant suffers the many attempts of humans to impose meaning on what they don't understand. Saramago's latest novel is an enchanting mix of fact (an Indian elephant really did make this journey in 1551), fable and fantasy. Filled with wonderful landscapes and local colour, peppered with witty reflection on human failings and achievements, it is, in the end, about the journey of life itself.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C943248</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C943248</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/943248037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blindness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctor's patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. This group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the unexplained good fortune that the doctor's wife has escaped the blindness.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C712639</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C712639</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/712639037</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cave]]></title><description><![CDATA[Informed that his clay pots and jugs are no longer needed, elderly potter Cipriano applies his craft to the making of ceramic dolls, but his family's subsequent successes are compromised by a terrible discovery.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1654006</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1654006</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1654006037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balami sangi]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1650962</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1650962</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[per]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1650962037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>per</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The History of the Siege of Lisbon]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1626215</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1626215</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1626215037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stone Raft]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1620280</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1620280</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1620280037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospel According to Jesus Christ]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son not of God, but of Joseph. In the desert it is not Satan, but God that Christ tussles with, an autocrat with whom he has an unbalanced and unsettled relationship.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1613365</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1613365</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saramago, José, 1922-2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 1993 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1613365037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>