Blindness José Saramago ISBN:9780156007757 About the book: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among [...]
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The Double by José Saramago
The Double José Saramago ISBN:9780156032582 About the book: Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find [...]
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz ISBN:9780156032520 About the book: Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed new work by "one of Israel’s most gifted and prolific authors" (Helen Epstein, The Forward) is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of [...]
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
Baudolino Umberto Eco ISBN:9780156029063 About the book: It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading [...]
Crabwalk by Günter Grass
Crabwalk Günter Grass ISBN:9780156029704 About the book: Hailed by critics and readers alike as Günter Grass’s best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany’s struggle with its wartime memories. The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was [...]
The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua
The Liberated Bride A. B. Yehoshua ISBN:9780156030168 About the book: Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naïve curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband’s faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well-adjusted couple with two grown sons. [...]
All the Names by José Saramago
All the Names José Saramago ISBN:9780156010597 About the book: Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city’s Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But [...]
Silence in October by Jens Christian Grondahl
Silence in October Jens Christian Grondahl ISBN:9780156012973 About the book: After eighteen years of marriage, an art historian wakes up one morning to find his wife standing in the bedroom doorway with her bags packed, leaving him with no explanation. Alone in his Copenhagen apartment, he tries to make sense of his enigmatic marriage and [...]
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
A Woman in Jerusalem A. B. Yehoshua ISBN:9780156031943 About the book: A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When [...]
