His Own Man by Edgard Telles Ribeiro

March 20, 2015 by Christina

Fiction — print. Translated from the Portuguese by Kim M. Hastings. Other Press, 2014. 341 pgs. Purchased. “Writing a country’s history may be difficult, but tracing a man’s story presents its own challenges. For a country, there is a vast array of information in the form of books and treaties, maps and images, leaders, legends, and archives. But a man? What kind of history does he have? Where would his secret maps be found? Or his boundaries? What might be […]

Categories: 2015 Reads, Fiction, Portuguese, South America, Translated • Tags: Edgard Telles Ribeiro

Blindness by José Saramago

January 10, 2011 by Christina

Fiction — print. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. 293 pgs. Library copy. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, Saramago’s novel follows unnamed people in an unnamed city in an unnamed country as they deal with the fallout from being suddenly struck blind. The Government (always spelled with a capital ‘G’ in the story) has rounded all of the afflicted people up and placed them inside an old insane asylum under […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Awards and Prizes, Dystopia, Fiction, Nobel Prize, Portuguese, Translated • Tags: José Saramago