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The Lives of Things collects Jose Saramago's early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these stories explore the horror and repression that paralyzed Portugal during the harsh regime of Salazar and pay tribute to human resilience in the face of injustice and institutionalized tyranny. Beautifully written and deeply unsettling, The Lives of Things illuminates the development of Saramago's prose and records the genesis of those themes that resound throughout his novels.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Lives of Things
• Author: Jose Saramago
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9781844678785
• ISBN: 1844678784
• ID: 04455532
• Publisher: VERSO
• Weight: 322 g
• Dimensions: 147 × 217 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2012

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