Death at Intervals
Author: Saramago, José
ISBN: 9781784871789
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 16mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'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?
ISBN: 9781784871789
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 16mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'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?
