The Independent - London, April 11th, 2008
Death at Intervals By Jose Saramago, trans Margaret Jull Costa HARVILL SECKER Pounds 12.99 (209pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897
Jose Saramago, Portugal's octogenarian Nobel Prize-winner and Communist militant, enjoys starting his books with a bang. The premise for The Stone Raft is a Pyrenean earthquake, after which Iberia floats off in the direction of the Azores; for Blindness, a pandemic of sight atrophy. In Death at Intervals, the last frontier of all is suspended. With nobody dying, society is again thrown into crisis. Problems range from the familiar (the economic impact o...
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