Skylight
Editorial HARVILL SECKER
Festland Spanien
- Verlag HARVILL SECKER
- ISBN13 9781846557347
- ISBN10 1846557348
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 320
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2014
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
Abschnitte
English LiteraturSkylight
Editorial HARVILL SECKER
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Called 'the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English. Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music; and the beautiful typist whose boss can't keep his eyes off her. Poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip and love - Skylight brings together all the joys and grief of ordinary people.