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Prestige, contemplative, grave and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Harvest Books, Bt Bound
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780156005203
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“DOM JOAO, THE FIFTH monarch so named on the royal list, will pay a visit this night to the bedchamber of the Queen, Dona Maria Ana Josefa, who arrived more than two years ago from Austria to provide heirs for the Portuguese crown, and so far has shown no signs of becoming pregnant.”
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)
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