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| View Larger Image | Gospel According to Jesus Christ (Panther) | Paperbackby Jose Saramago (Author)
| List Price: | $13.09 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Harvill Pr | | Page Count: | 352 Pages | | Publication Date: | May 01, 1999 | | Sales Rank: | 673,777rd |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
This book is a retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son not of God, but of Joseph. In the desert it is not Satan, but God that Christ tussles with, an autocrat with whom he has an unbalanced and unsettled relationship. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 79 reviews)
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Thought provoking creatively written by Rikki (Georgia)  4 Stars
March 16, 2009
For those who wish they might have lived to watch Jesus grow up, this might be interesting reading. The author provides a fictional (based on historical information, however) narrative of a human boy's journey to manhood. A sort of reality check from the earth-bound side. Jesus was a real flesh and blood boy, foibles and all, the author proposes. A most interesting and compelling read. Read with an open mind.
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Interesting read by game play addict (U.S.A.) 4 Stars
March 07, 2009
Saramago provided a good story that will keep you reading the book to the end. Blindness, another fictional book written by Saramago was also an interesting read.
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One of the greatest stories ever told... by Yimi Tong (San Francisco, CA United States)  5 Stars
March 07, 2009
I couldn't put this book down. The author is able to weave together a beautifully told story with wry humor, tender humanism, intelligent skepticism and an admirable respect for his subject matter. I'm still thinking about this book weeks after reading it.
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A bit disappointing by MWC (Texas, USA)  3 Stars
May 14, 2008
I like Jose Saramago as a writer. I like religion as a topic. However, it took me a very long time to get into this book. The first half dragged on for WAY longer than I felt it could have and though the second half delivered everything I'd been hoping for all along, the fact that it took so long to get to it was bit disappointing. In the end, I think it could have been more effective as a novella. That said, I did enjoy it once it got moving.
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Commercial book for an average reader by Iryna Rudenko (Ukraine)  2 Stars
April 29, 2008
I was very excited to read that book.But very shortly, my disappointment took me by surprise. Primitive writing, simple sentences, hackneyed subject used by so many writer in order to make some $$$
Seems like writer was in a rush to finish the book, many ideas have suffered a premature death. I believe, it is a shame that nowadays an ordinary (not to say pathetic) writer like that can get a Noble prize.
This book could be so much more, if given in the hands of a talented person!
If you are really looking for quality reading on the subject, I highly recommend Thomas Mann.
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From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
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| Death with Interruptions
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Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration—flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life....
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| The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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| The Stone Raft
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When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. “A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulous fable” (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
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| All the Names
by Jose Saramago (Author), Margaret Costa (Translator)
Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more...
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