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Skylight

Skylight

by Margaret Jull CostaJosé Saramago and José Saramago
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/11/2015

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"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

ISBN:
9780544570375
9780544570375
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-11-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
203.2x134.87x22.35mm
Weight:
0.26kg

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