New York: Harcourt, (1999). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. The main setting of the novel is the Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths of some ambiguous and unnamed city. This municipal archive holds the record cards for all residents of the city stretching back endlessly..... More
New York: Harcourt, 1999. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the half title page. Nobel Prize sticker to the front panel of the dust jacket. The story of an ordinary life that takes on extraordinary dimensions. The author won the Novel Prize for Literature in 1998. The..... More
London: Harvill, (1997). First edition in English. Hardcover. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. This stunningly powerful novel, of a man's will to survive against all odds, was mentioned specifically when the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1998). More
New York: Harcourt, (2002). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. The story concerns an elderly potter named Cipriano Algor, his daughter Marta, and his son-in-law Marçal. One day, the Center, literally the center of commerce in the story, cancels its order for Cipriano's pottery, leaving the elderly potter's future in doubt. He..... More
