- Fantasy fiction, Translations into English, Portuguese fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
Joana Carda scratches the ground with an elm branch and the mute dogs of Cerbere begin to bark, portending doom. The earth cracks open and the Iberian peninsula separates from Europe and floats off into the Atlantic.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Epic, contemporary, prestige and open-ended.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- José Saramago
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 292
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace, Harcourt Trade Publishers
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780151851980
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 4 want to.
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈso(w).zɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago)
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド 198573% alikeBoth contemporary, epic.
Death with interruptions 200872% alikeBoth contemporary, prestige.
Cat's Cradle 196371% alikeBoth epic, contemporary.
The skin of our teeth 194270% alikeBoth epic, prestige; this one is more nostalgic.
The End of Everything 202670% alikeBoth contemporary, epic.
The Satanic Verses 198869% alikeBoth contemporary, prestige, epic.
Gnomon 201869% alikeBoth epic, contemporary.
Both epic, prestige.
Game · Both epic, contemporary.- Thick as a Brick 197267% alikeMusic · Both epic.