Las intermitencias de la muerte / Death with Interruptions (Paperback)

from bodachliath

A surreal modern parable full of imagination and quirky black humour. If, like me, you have read Saramago's earlier novel Blindness, this one has a similar structure. This one starts with the premise that in a small country, all death suddenly stops. The first half of the book explores the conseq...

from mamzel

This was a very different (for me) kind of book in style. Starting on the first day of the new year, in a Catholic landlocked country, no one died. This story is about how this impacted all parts of society from the royal family to peasant families, and government and business. After a while, dea...

from the_awesome_opossum

The inevitable force of death has decided to desert one unnamed country. Naturally, at first its citizens are euphoric, imagining themselves specially singled out, given the hope of eternal life in a new millennium. But as the novel plays itself out, the logistics and ramifications of a society w...

from dresdon

Good book. The author does a masterful job of interweaving worldly and metaphysical topics, especially as it regards human nature, death, government and culture). It took me a while to get used to the form of writing, where there are only one or two sentences per chapter, but once I adjusted, th...

from

This was wonderful. I'm so glad that Heather wrote about this book on her blog or I would probably never have known about it. Beautiful writing, some very funny moments, and some very heavy philosophical questions. A really terrific book.