The Lives of Things

<p><b>A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifs</b></p> <p>Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of José Saramago’s earliest stories from the beginning of his writing career attests to the novelist’s imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Each tale is a wicked, surreal take on life under dictatorship: in ‘Embargo’ a man drives around a city that is slowly running out of petrol; ‘The Chair’ recounts what happens when dictator Salazar falls off his chair and dies; in the Kafkaesque ‘Things’ the life of a civil servant is threatened as objects start to go missing.</p>

Author(s): José Saramago

ISBN 10: 1781680868
ISBN 13: 9781781680865
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Publication: 5/7/2013

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