Skylight
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ISBN: 0544570375 / Publisher: Mariner Books, November 2015
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.
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&;The inklings of Saramago&;s style swell throughout . . . Skylight shines.&; &; New York Times &;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 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&;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
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