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Skylight

Skylight

Saramago, José
Costa, Margaret Jull
Costa, Margaret Jull

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0544570375
ISBN13: 9780544570375
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Nov 3 2015
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

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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