200 Pages and a Surprise
“In a quaint former working-class neighbourhood in Lisbon, a simple white two-storey house stands out from all the others, marked by a blue ceramic of a beautiful young woman on the facade.
Her name is Blimunda and she is the character of the novel that brought Portuguese Nobel Prize laureate, Jose Saramago, world fame in 1987.”
The BBC interviews Jose Saramago. (via Bookslut)
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June 23rd, 2009 at 10:35 am
I freaking love Saramago.