Tale of the Unknown Island
«Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time»
Walter Haubrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
A wonderful and witty book, part folk fable, part philosophical tale, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature and the greatest Portuguese writer of his time. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- The Harvill Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 48
- ISBN
- 9781860466908
- Utgivelsesår
- 1999
- Format
- 19 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time»
Walter Haubrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
«Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life»
John Updike
«No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist»
Edmund White
«He was the equal of Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile - he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy»
Harold Bloom
«Saramago is a writer of formidable talent and extraordinary imagination»
La Repubblica