Tag Archives: Margaret Jull Costa
Happy Birthday, José Saramago!
Saramago, who was born on this date in 1922 and died in 2010, is one of only a dozen Latinos to win the Nobel Prize in literature, which he won in 1998. Saramago’s best known book, 1995′s Blindness, was made … Continue reading
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Book review: José Saramago’s “Cain”
Nobel Prize winner José Saramago is known for his dark words such as Blindness. Who knew he was such a comedian? The late Portuguese’s last novel, Cain, released last month, tells some of the stories of the Bible from the … Continue reading
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Book review: Paulo Coehlo’s “Aleph”
Paulo Coelho’s Aleph is not just a novel – but also a guidebook on how to live life in the present. Coelho is the best-selling, beloved Brazilian novelist of The Alchemist and, like that book, Aleph is about a spiritual … Continue reading
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