by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420456553
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«La viuda» is José Saramago's first novel, published by Alfaguara in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
María Leonor, mother of two, is widowed and must take charge of an estate in the Alentejo. Though mourning and social conventions weigh on her, a secret desire does not fade; her solitude is disrupted when two very different men enter her life. The novel deals with love, the passage of time, and the changes of nature.
Written in 1947, it was originally published in Portugal as Terra do pecado; this Spanish edition includes the translation by Antonio Sáez Delgado and belongs to the Biblioteca Saramago collection.
For readers of literary fiction and rural settings, and for those who want to discover the origins of a Nobel Prize winner's work.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
