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Death at Intervals
  • Published: 2 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784871789
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.99
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Death at Intervals

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20 Sept 2013
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2 Jan 2018
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'Death at Intervals is a delight: witty, clever, humane, light in tone, profoundly serious in matter' - Scotsman

In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally.

Death does return eventually, but with a new, courteous approach – delivering violet warning letters to her victims. But what can death do when a letter is unexpectedly returned?
  • Published: 2 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784871789
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

José Saramago

JOSÉ DE SOUSA SARAMAGO, (November 1922 - June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. He was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament (EWP).
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