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Seeing by José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

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About the Book

Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out.

Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy percent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three percent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight percent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency.

In his new novel, José Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. Seeing explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be.

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José Saramago

José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

Book Review

"He writes with wit, with heartbreaking dignity, and with the simplicity of a great artist in full control of his art. Let us listen to a true elder of our people, a man of tears, a man of wisdom"-- Ursula Le Guin Guardian

"A brilliant, cruelly ironic, surreal exposé of what we think of as civil society"-- John Burnside Scotland on Sunday

"Saramago portrays an instantly recognizable world in which our political masters bang on about democracy while pursuing policies without any regard to the normal standards of law and basic morality, but in this dense, dark, and occasionally brutal book he never forgets the satirist's duty to be funny"-- Peter Parker Sunday Times

"This is political satire delivered with rare intellectual gravitas" -- Mail on Sunday

"A profound fable"-- New Statesman

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AuthorJosé Saramago
PublisherRHUK
Publication date3 May 2007
LanguageEnglish
Number of page320 pages
Product Dimensions 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
BindingPaperback
ISBN9780099483625

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Weight0.2220

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