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Recommended English books written by authors from Portugal (15)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak English here are some English books from Portugal for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".

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All the Names by José Saramago EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
When a drone in the Central Registry discovers a stray unfiled birth certificate, he decides to investigate the identity of the woman--the first step in an obsession that will lead him to her. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they purse his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.
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Blindness by José Saramago EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with... continue

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Death with Interruptions by José Saramago EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death?
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Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.

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Our Lady of the Pillar by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
In this classic of Portuguese literature, E�a de Queir�s's greatest incursion into the fantastic, a young nobleman falls in love with a married woman and is entrapped by her husband, but help comes from the unlikeliest of sources.


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Seeing by José Saramago EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day is marked by an unprecedented turnout of blank ballots and rebellious acts that prompt a state of emergency declaration. By the Nobel Prize for Literature-winning author of Blindness. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
For the first time--and in the best translation ever--the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison
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The Double by Jose Saramago EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
A “wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality” from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits (The Boston Globe). As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noise, he finds the VCR replaying the video and watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him—or, more specifically, exactly like he did five... continue
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