Filter By Subjects
(Biblical figure) Cain Fiction Bible O.T History of Biblical events Fiction Blind Fiction Death Fiction FICTION / Historical FICTION / Literary Portuguese fiction 20th century Translations into English Recording and registration Fiction Registers of births, etc Fiction Vital statistics FictionFilter By Subjects
(Biblical figure) Cain Fiction Bible O.T History of Biblical events Fiction Blind Fiction Death Fiction FICTION / Historical FICTION / Literary Portuguese fiction 20th century Translations into English Recording and registration Fiction Registers of births, etc Fiction Vital statistics FictionSaramago, Jose
Summary: Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, the novel charts the lives of the Mau Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background-the coming of the republic in Portugual, the two World Wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar’s life. Yet nothing really impinges on the grim reality of the farm laborers’ lives until the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSARAMAGO, JOSE
Summary: An illustrated fable on dreaming the impossible. The hero is a man who asks a king for a boat to search for an unknown island. How can you search for something unknown? Well, it turns out you can, provided you are willing to follow your dreams, and what is more your dreams may come true. By the author of The Stone Raft.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, José.
Summary: Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago's spellbinding tale begins when an unnamed man, in an unnamed city is suddenly struck blind. In the days that follow, everyone he comes in contact with, in turn comes down with the mysterious condition. As the blindness spreads to epidemic proportions, the government responds by isolating the infected in an abandoned mental hospital where social conditions...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Saramago, José.
Summary: An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, José.
Summary: 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 them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1998
View online at OverDrive
Saramago, José.
Summary: Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, José.
Summary: "The enchanting tale of an elephant, his keeper, and their journey through sixteenth-century Europe, based on a true story." ----Book jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, José.
Summary: "A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, Jos.
Summary: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Inc. 1999
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ENESaramago, José.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, José.
Summary: "In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Job's ordeal, and finally Noah's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Saramago, José.
Summary: "On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, understandably, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, funeral directors, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration - flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home - families...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008