Death at Intervals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death at Intervals write by José Saramago. This book was released on 2013-09-20. Death at Intervals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally. Death does return eventually, but with a new, courteous approach – delivering violet warning letters to her victims. But what can death do when a letter is unexpectedly returned?
Death with Interruptions
Death with Interruptions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death with Interruptions write by José Saramago. This book was released on 2009. Death with Interruptions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the first day of the new year, no one dies; the reality hits home as families are left to care for the permanently dying. Death sits in her apartment and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again?
Death at Intervals
Death at Intervals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death at Intervals write by José Saramago. This book was released on 2008. Death at Intervals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. his understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders if there s no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are reduced to arranging funerals for dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots. Life insurance policies become meaningless. Amid the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration- flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity eternal life. But will death s disappearance benefit the human race, or will this sudden abeyance backfire? How long can families cope with malingering elderly relatives who scratch at death s door while the portal remains firmly shut? Then, seven months later, death returns, heralded by purple envelopes informing the recipients that their time is up. Death herself is now writing personal notes giving one week's notice. However, when an envelope is unexpectedly returned to her, death begins to experience strange, almost human emotions. In his new novel Jose Saramago again turns the
Baltasar and Blimunda
Baltasar and Blimunda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baltasar and Blimunda write by José Saramago. This book was released on 1998-10-16. Baltasar and Blimunda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” —The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church an expansive new convent, should they intercede with God to give him an heir. A lonely priest works in maniacal solitude on his Passarola, a heretical flying machine he hopes will allow him to soar far from the madness surrounding him. A young couple, brought together by chance, live out a sweet, if tormented, romance. Meanwhile, amid the fires and horrors of the Inquisition, angry crowds and abused peasants rejoice in spectacles of cruelty, from bullfighting to auto-da-fe; disgraced priests openly flout God’s laws; and chaos reigns over a society on the brink of disaster. Weaving together multiple storylines to present both breathtaking fiction and incisive commentary, renowned Portuguese writer and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, José Saramago spins an epic and captivating yarn, equal parts historical fiction, political satire, religious criticism, and whimsical romance. Hailed by USA Today as “an unexpected gem,” Baltasar and Blimunda is a captivating literary tour de force, full of magic and adventure, exquisite historical detail, and the power of both human folly and human will.
Doomsday Book
Doomsday Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doomsday Book write by Connie Willis. This book was released on 1993-08-01. Doomsday Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
