An Unexpected Light

(Hardback)

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Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago tells a quiet and poetic story, an excerpt from his book Small Memories, of a lasting childhood experience of simple, soulful joy. The narrator's memories of a lost childhood paradise focus on two glorious days when he helped his uncle take some piglets to the market in Santarem. They traverse dusty roads, sleep in a barn and awake to a miraculous moonglow, and hear the animals in their "infinite conversations." The journey, the night, the wind, the light. . . . This poetic story is an unforgettable adventure narrated by Jose Saramago and presented alongside Armando Fonseca's fanciful and evocative illustrations. A very special gift for readers of all ages.

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Jose 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). Margaret Jull Costa is a translator of Portuguese and Spanish fiction and poetry, including the works of Jose Saramago, E a de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Coelho, Bernardo Atxaga, Carmen Martin Gaite, Javier Marias, Angela Vallvey, and Luisa Valenzuela.. Her translations have been awarded the International Dublin Literary Award, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (four times), and the TLS Translation Prize, among many others. She lives in England Armando Fonseca studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He works as an illustrator in different medias- illustrated books, album books, covers, press work. Armando's work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad and he has been recognized with a special mention at The Sharjah Children's Reading Festival, the Gold Plate and La Manzana de Oro at the Bratislava International Biennial of Illustration an honorable mention at Iberoamerica Ilustra, Illustrators Show of the Bologna Fair 2020 and in the illustration Show of the Shanghai Fair. He created the collective for the CAJA with the illustrators Juan Palomino and Amanda Mijangos. His interest include training and theory of illustration.