The Notebook

Beautifully crafted and honest, Saramago's notebook is elegant in tone and style while clearly conveying a legend's take on our evolving society.A" Publishers Weekly Fascinating and smart and provocative, and a lot of fun to dip into.A" New York Times An often sharp, sometimes mischievous, engagement with the world - Such shafts of sanity and humour will be missed.A" Maya Jaggi, Guardian In readably provocative style, with offbeat riffs on his life and writing, on ideas and histories - This is a bittersweet delight.A" Boyd Tonkin, Independent Saramago enjoys picking up a passing thought or an incident and running with it, confident in his political outrage, calm in his appreciation of friends, considered in his aphoristic criticism of culture.A" Iain Finlayson, The Times