In 1953, José Saramago submitted a novel to his publishers. Thirty-six years later, he heard back.
A 'lost' novel by the Portuguese Nobel Prize for Literature winner, first submitted in 1953 and lost in the publishers' offices for 36 years. Set in the late-1940s in an old Lisbon apartment block, "Skylight" brings together all the joys and grief of ordinary people - poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip and love.
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of thelast 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.
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A fluid and imaginative translation by Margaret Jull Costa. . . A masterly creation: pessimistic without being bleak, lyrical without being sentimental. . . Saramago tears back that curtain to reveal not only the stage on which life is performed but also backstage, under unflattering working lights; to show humanity at its most anxious, its most vulnerable and most true James Runcie Independent
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