José Saramago (1922–2010) was a Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.

Born 16 November 1922; died 18 June 2010. Nobel Prize in Literature 1998. Known for long, digressive sentences, allegorical and politically charged novels that often start from a simple 'what if' premise.

DeBaser reviews praise Saramago's use of simple 'what if' premises to explore social and political consequences, his long digressive sentences, and his ironic narrators. Reviewers highlight works such as Blindness, Death with Interruptions, and The Double. Overall the corpus is admired for craft, political sting, and narrative inventiveness.

For:Readers of literary fiction, political allegory, speculative 'what if' novels, and fans of Nobel-winning literature.

 The following day, no one died.

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 The following day no one died. The fact, being absolutely contrary to the norms of life, caused enormous disturbance in the minds, which was entirely justified, we need only remember that there was no mention in the forty volumes of universal history, even if it was just a sample case, of such a phenomenon ever occurring, with an entire day passing, with all its generous twenty-four hours, between day and night, morning and evening, without a death from illness, a fatal fall, a successful suicide, nothing at all, zero smashed.

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 I didn’t think it possible, but it is even more so than "The Road" by Cormac.

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 What would you do if you were to discover that in your city there is someone who is not only identical to you but has changed, is changing, and will change in the same way you have changed, are changing, and will change?

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