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Jose Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and has been a full-time writer since 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and ten novels, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as the most influential Portuguese writer of his generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998
While the events of Saramago's life of Christ will be known to readers of the conventional Gospels, his approach brings an astonishing freshness to the familiar stories. The human aspect of Jesus is stressed above all else, and Saramago's Gospel ends at Golgotha with the death of Jesus. Mary and Joseph are typical of their place and time, simple people living ordinary lives, in accordance with the ways of their religion, until interrupted by the arrival of angels. Beautifully translated by Pontiero, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature tells his story with an easy wit, and embellishes it with inspired poetic touches. The result is a profound and moving work which leads the reader to reassess the original, and come to a new appreciation of its events and their significance. (Kirkus UK)
