One of the Nobel Prize Winner’s earliest novels, Skylight was left sitting in a publisher’s office in Lisbon for decades. After all these years, “the book lost and found in time” is finally being published in English.
It’s the late 1940’s in Lisbon. Faded apartment dwellers struggle to make ends meet: A cobbler and his wife take in a disillusioned young resident; A pretty young typist works under a boss who lusts for her; A cultivated family tries to block out their fallen status with books and music. Many other unique stories live inside Saramago’s seamless compilation of ordinary people.
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