The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jose Saramago
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:368 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781860466847
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| Classifications | Dewey:869.342 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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| Imprint |
The Harvill Press
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| Publication Date |
2 September 1999 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and necessary evil - but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth. 'An original, wild and beautiful book' Times Literary Supplement
Author Biography
Jose 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.
ReviewsProfound and poignant * Independent * An original, wild and beautiful book * Times Literary Supplement *
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