Reviews
PRAISE FOR JOSÉ SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."-- Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."-- The Christian Science Monitor, PRAISE FOR JOSÉ SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."— Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."— The Christian Science Monitor, PRAISE FOR JOSÉ SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."— Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."— The Christian Science Monitor, PRAISE FOR JOS% SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."-- Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer Jos Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."-- The Christian Science Monitor, No writer since Orwell has zeroed in with such precision and vigor on the language of self-serving administrators, and Death with Interruptions contains some of Saramago's best satire about government corruption, military jingoism, and media hysteria...How can the most tender relationship that Saramago has ever written involve death as a nervous lover? This is a story that can't possibly work or affect us, but it does, deeply, sweetly. It's a novel to die for., Wonderfully absurd and meditative...an endearing love story that could make anyone sympathize with death herself., PRAISE FOR JOSÉ SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."-- Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."-- The Christian Science Monitor, A small-ish toothy addition to a great novelist's work...generates a set of sharp theological and metaphysical questions about the desirability of utopia, the possibility of Heaven, and the true foundation of religion., PRAISE FOR JOS SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."-- Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer Jos Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."-- The Christian Science Monitor, PRAISE FOR JOS&E´ SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."-- Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer Jos&e´ Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."-- The Christian Science Monitor, PRAISE FOR JOSÉ SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."- Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."- The Christian Science Monitor, PRAISE FOR JOSÉ SARAMAGO "Saramago is arguably the greatest writer of our time . . . He has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal."- Chicago Tribune "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master."- The Christian Science Monitor
