Journey To Portugal Av José Saramago

<strong>Det optimale burde jo være å ta denne boka med seg på en likedan biltur som den Saramago gjorde. Men å foreta denne reisen i sofakroken der hjemme, er heller ingen dårlig idé.</strong><br><br/>Nøste Kendzior, Kulturnytt,...

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile, over the sea to Genoa and up to northern Italy where, like Hannibal's elephants before him, he must...

Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes...

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose SaramagoSenhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry.