Death with Interruptions

Death with Interruptions Book Description

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration--flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home--families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.
Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small "d," became human and were to fall in love?

Jose Saramago has contributed to Death with Interruptions as an author. JOS SARAMAGO was born in 1922. He is the author of numerous novels, including "Blindness, All the Names, " "The Cave, "and "Death with Interruptions". In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.


Margaret Jull Costa has contributed to Death with Interruptions as a translator. Margaret Jull Costa won both the 2008 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize and the 2008 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Eca de Queiros's The Maias. She is also the translator of the work of Fernando Pessoa, Jose Saramago, and Javier Marias.

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