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The inklings of Saramagos 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 L dia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Humble salesman Emilios Spanish wife is in a permanent rage; beautiful Claudinhas 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 thats 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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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Mariner Books
