| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780156013031 | | Publisher: Harcourt | | Publish Date: 10/1/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 30613057 | | Item#: RYV7Y9 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.5H x 4.25L x 0.25T | | Pages: 64 |
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| | | | "A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat..." (from the first line) In this richly imagined fable of love, written by a 1998 Novel Prize winner and illustrated by an award-winning artist, a man comes knocking at a king's door to petition a boat. Readers learn where he's bound and who volunteers to be on his crew. Color line art throughout.
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A fable that is also a love story, from Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese writer José Saramago, TALES OF THE UNKNOWN ISLAND works both as a satire of political bureaucracy and as a parable about lovers and dreamers.
| PraiseKirkus
"This richly enigmatic short story...is a mischievous and thoughtful satire on ruling elites and bold dreamers....[Saramago] may be the world's greatest living novelist." 09/01/1999New Yorker
"[A] pared-down fable, enhanced by Peter Sis's delicate drawings....A poetic allegorist at heart, Saramago spills...simple wants and fears onto a broad philosophic plain...." 11/15/1999 |
| Author Bio| Jose Saramago | | Born into a poor family in Azinhaga, near Lisbon, Saramago was raised in the capital city. He studied at the university part-time, supporting himself as a metalworker. His first novel, TERRA DE PECCADO (Country of sin, 1947) was not a success, but its publication enabled Saramago to leave his job and join the staff of a Portuguese literary magazine. A Communist who outspokenly opposed the right-wing dictatorship of Antonio Salazar, Saramago wrote and published journalism, travel books, and poetry, writing fiction again only in 1974 when the Salazar regime fell after a military uprising. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature for "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony." |
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