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  • Published: 1 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860466847
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ




Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil – a kindly and necessary evil – but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth.

‘An original, wild and beautiful book’ Times Literary Supplement

  • Published: 1 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860466847
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Jose Saramago

José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

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Praise for The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Profound and poignant

Independent

An original, wild and beautiful book

Times Literary Supplement