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Nobel Prize winner Saramago's never-before-published first novel is an insightful and surprisingly suspenseful story about the tenants in a Lisbon apartment building in 1952. The characters range from Silvestre, the philosopher/cobbler, and his wife, who rent out a room to a young drifter; Lídia, a kept woman, whose lover begins to fancy a younger neighbor; Carmen and Emílio, an unhappy couple whose son is caught in the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More