Skylight - by José Saramago & Margaret Jull Costa (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Published for the very first time, an early novel by Nobel laureate and literary master José Saramago that tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded Lisbon apartment building in the late 1940s.<b></b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"The inklings of Saramago's style swell throughout . . . <i>Skylight</i> shines." --<i> New York Times</i> <p/> "Unmistakably Saramago . . . There is no shortage of wonders to be found in [<i>Skylight</i>]." -- <i>Washington Post</i> <p/> "A fascinating and startlingly mature work . . . The book is a gem." -- <i>Boston Globe</i></b> <p/> Lisbon, late 1940s. The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends meet: Silvio the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona Lídia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Humble salesman Emilio's Spanish wife is in a permanent rage; beautiful Claudinha's boss lusts for her; Justina and her womanizer husband live at war with each other. Happy marriages, abusive relationships, jealousy, gossip, love--<i>Skylight</i> is a portrait of ordinary people painted by the master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardship of the modern world. <p/><b>"The gifted young Saramago makes these characters click together in a way that's extremely sympathetic." -- NPR, <i>All Things Considered</i> <p/> "It was only a matter of time before a work of such extraordinary honesty and perception would make its way into the world." -- <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Unmistakably Saramago . . . There is no shortage of wonders to be found in ["Skylight"]. "Washington Post" A fascinating and startlingly mature work . . . The book is a gem. "Boston Globe" Lisbon, late 1940s. The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends meet: Silvio the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona Lidia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Humble salesman Emilio s Spanish wife is in a permanent rage; beautiful Claudinha s boss lusts for her; Justina and her womanizer husband live at war with each other. Happy marriages, abusive relationships, jealousy, gossip, love "Skylight" is a portrait of ordinary people painted by the master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardship of the modern world. The gifted young Saramago makes these characters click together in a way that's extremely sympathetic. NPR, "All Things Considered" It was only a matter of time before a work of such extraordinary honesty and perception would make its way into the world. "San Francisco Chronicle" JOSE SARAMAGO (1922 2010) was the author of many novels, among them "Blindness, ""All the Names, ""Baltasar and Blimunda, " and "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis." In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Fluid and imaginative...[<i>Skylight</i>] is a masterly creation: pessimistic without being bleak, lyrical without being sentimental...Brilliantly structured, the novel contains moments of extraordinary poignancy...[Saramago] shows humanity at its most anxious, its most vulnerable and most true." --<i>The Independent</i> (UK) <p/> "Not only does [<i>Skylight</i>] illuminate the slow development of a radically original artist, but it is an interesting novel in its own right...The explicit sexuality of the book (which may have kept it from being considered for publication in Salazar's Portugal in 1953) is remarkable now only because it is so compassionate...Moving from character to character, the loosely plotted story includes a good deal of mean-spirited evildoing, quite in the tradition of Balzac and the naturalists. It also includes dry humour, and at least one tranquil domestic scene revealed suddenly as almost visionary." --<i>The Guardian</i> (UK) <p/> "Compelling...[<i>Skylight</i>] is shot through with more than enough flashes of brilliance to justify it seeing the light of day." --<i>The National </i>(UAE) <p/><br>
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