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Skylight

Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon and longs for her first love, Manolo. Lidia used to work the streets, but now she's kept by Paulo, a wealthy man with a wandering eye. These are just some of the characters in this early work, completed by Saramago in 1953 but never published until now. With his characteristic compassion, depth, and wit, Saramago shows us the quiet contentment of a happy family and the infectious poison of an unhappy one. We see his characters' most intimate moments as well as the casual encounters particular to neighbors living in close proximity.

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  • "Claraboia"@it
  • "Claraboia"

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  • "Story revolves around the tenants of six apartments in a building and the hardships they endure."
  • ""Amanece en Lisboa. En una mañana de mediados del siglo XX, la mirada del novelista se asoma a la ventana de un vecindario. Se anuncia un día no muy diferente de los demás: el zapatero Silvestre, que abre su taller; Adriana, que parte hacia el trabajo mientras en su casa tres mujeres inician otra jornada de costura; Justina, que tiene ante sí un largo día jalonado por las disputas con su brutal marido; la mantenida Lidia; y la española Carmen, sumida en nostalgias. Discretamente, la mirada del novelista va descendiendo y, de repente, deja de ser simple testigo para ver con los ojos de cada uno de los personajes. Capítulo a capítulo, salta de casa en casa, de personaje en personaje, abriéndonos un mundo gobernado por la necesidad, las grandes frustraciones, las pequeñas ilusiones, la nostalgia de tiempos que ni siquiera fueron mejores."--P. [3] of cover."
  • "Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon and longs for her first love, Manolo. Lidia used to work the streets, but now she's kept by Paulo, a wealthy man with a wandering eye. These are just some of the characters in this early work, completed by Saramago in 1953 but never published until now. With his characteristic compassion, depth, and wit, Saramago shows us the quiet contentment of a happy family and the infectious poison of an unhappy one. We see his characters' most intimate moments as well as the casual encounters particular to neighbors living in close proximity."@en
  • ""A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon and longs for her first love, Manolo. Lidia used to work the streets, but now she's kept by Paulo, a wealthy man with a wandering eye. These are just some of the characters in this early work, completed by Saramago in 1953 but never published until now. With his characteristic compassion, depth, and wit, Saramago shows us the quiet contentment of a happy family and the infectious poison of an unhappy one. We see his characters' most intimate moments as well as the casual encounters particular to neighbors living in close proximity. Skylight is a portrait of ordinary people, painted by a master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardships of the modern world."--Publisher information."
  • ""A portrait of ordinary people, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon"--"
  • ""Dawn breaks over Lisbon one mid-20th century morning. The novelist looks out the window in a neighborhood; there is nothing to indicate this day will be any different: Silvestre, the shoe-maker, opens the door to his workshop, Adriana leaves for work while in her home three woman begin another full day of sewing, Justina is looking at another long bout of fighting with her brutal husband; Lidia, the kept woman, and Carmen, the Spaniard, lost in nostalgic thoughts. Discreetly, the novelist's gaze travels downward. Suddenly, he stops being a humble witness to become each one of the neighborhood's characters. With each chapter he jumps from one house to the next, from one person to another, to reveal a world ruled by need, by great frustrations and small illusions, by a longing for a time that wasn't any better than this one."--Amazon.com."
  • "Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes and jewellery; and the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music."@en
  • "A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon and longs for her first love, Manolo. Lidia used to work the streets, but now she's kept by Paulo, a wealthy man with a wandering eye. These are just some of the characters in this early work, completed by Saramago in 1953 but never published until now."
  • "Amanece en Lisboa. En una mañana de mediados del siglo XX, la mirada del novelista se asoma a la ventana de un vecindario. Se anuncia un dia no muy diferente de los demas: el zapatero Silvestre, que abre su taller; Adriana, que parte hacia el trabajo mientras en su casa tres mujeres inician otra jornada de costura; Justina, que tiene ante si un largo dia jalonado por las disputas con su brutal marido; la mantenida Lidia; y la española Carmen, sumida en nostalgias...Todos los conocedores, estudiosos o aficionados a la obra de Saramago estaran avidos de saber donde comenzo todo en la obra del Nobel. Jose Saramago continua despertando un gran interes mediatico. El estreno en 2010 de la pelicula Jose y Pilar junto a diversos homenajes, han demostrado como su recuerdo se mantiene vivo en los medios de comunicacion."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Spanish language materials"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Portuguese fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Facsimiles"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Livres numériques"
  • "Roman portugais"
  • "Manuscripts"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Genres littéraires"

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  • "al-Manwar : riwāyah"
  • "Skylight"@en
  • "Skylight"
  • "Claraboya [??]"
  • "Claraboia romance"
  • "La lucarne roman"
  • "Claraboia oder wo das Licht einfällt Roman"
  • "Claraboia : romance"
  • "La lucarne : roman"
  • "Claraboia : Romance"
  • "Claraboya"@es
  • "Claraboia oder Wo das Licht einfällt Roman"
  • "Claraboya"
  • "Claraboia oder Wo das Licht einfällt : Roman"
  • "Claraboia"
  • "Bovenlicht"
  • "Claraboia"@ca
  • "Lucernario"@it
  • "Lucernario"
  • "La lucarne roman"

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