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The notebook (Updated ed.)

Saramago, JoseEco, Umberto(Preface by)Hahn, Daniel(Translated by)Hopkinson, Amanda(Translated by)
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A thought-provoking daily record of the last year in the life of the Nobel Prize winning novelist.Beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, The Notebook evokes life in SaramagoAAAa AaAAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA!AAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA?AAaAaAAs beloved Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and offers meditations on the author's favorite writers.

Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are rendered with pointillist detail, and together demonstrate an acute understanding of our times.

Characteristically critical and uncompromising, Saramago dissects the financial crisis, deplores IsraelAAAa AaAAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA!AAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA?AAaAaAAs punishment of Gaza, and reflects on the rise of Barack Obama.

The Notebook is a unique journey into the personal and political world of one of the greatest writers of our time.

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1844678016 / 9781844678013
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01/05/2011
England
English
284 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Description based on print version record.