***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. ***Uncorrected Proof Copy of the first impression of the first UK edition of José Saramago's masterpiece: The Double. A hint of very light rubbing to extremities. A small round indentation to the front cover which affects the first few pages. ***Near fine in black and blue illustrated card wrappers, with the front and rear wrappers printed "upside-down" to each other. It was followed by another book of poems, Probably Joy, in 1970, three collections of newspaper articles in 1971, 19 respectively, and the long poem The Year of 1993 in 1975. It remained his only published literary work until a poetry book, Possible Poems, was published in 1966. ***Uncorrected Proof Copy of the first impression of the first edition in English, with full number-string sequence including the no. Saramago published his first novel, Land of Sin, in 1947. Enemy directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, adapted from The Double, the 2002 novel by Jose Saramago, the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner. Blindness ( bahasa Portugis: Ensaio sobre a cegueira) adalah sebuah novel tahun 1995 karangan José Saramago. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Saramago is not known for his lightness of touch. His take on the theme is clever, alarming and blackly funny, although he spins out to more than 300 pages a tale that Borges would have elegantly dispatched in three. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Yet José Saramago has flogged new life into what might have seemed a dead horse.
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