José Saramago is a Portuguese author and Nobel Prize laureate. His novels are imbued with magical realism and read like fairy tales for adults.
"Death with Interruptions" feels like an episode of "Black Mirror." Death is a woman of about thirty-six, of rare beauty. One day, she decides to suspend her activities within the territory of a single state. The dream of immortality has come true. But old age, illnesses, accidents, and other calamities have not disappeared. Thousands of people find themselves in a state of suspended death, and their relatives do not know how to alleviate their loved ones' suffering...
Convinced that the experiment has failed, Death returns. She promises to send letters to the doomed seven days before their passing. But one violet envelope containing a death notice keeps returning to the sender. A musician who lives with his dog has no intention of dying, and Death simply cannot bring herself to kill him.
Author: José Saramago
Translator: Alexander Bogdanovsky
Pages: 288 (offset paper). Paperback
Dimensions: 200x126x21 mm
Series: Magistral. Vstrechnoye dvizhenie
