![]() ![]() If death has stopped, then much will change. In any case Jose Saramago is at his best in taking this bizarre and counter-factual premise and, despite the seriousness of the subject matter, amusing us with the full logic of what this means. We don’t know the nation, and I was fairly much assuming it was Portugal until we read that it was “a landlocked nation.” It is current time, yet some of the setting of the royal family and such suggests an earlier period. However, she doesn’t die, in fact no one dies at all on the following days. The nation is waiting for news of the elderly queen mother who is on the edge of death. ![]() The novel opens on December 31st of an unnamed year. New York: Harcourt,Inc., 2008, from the Portuguese DEATH WITH INTERRUPTIONS DEATH WITH INTERRUPTIONS Jose Saramago ![]()
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