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Skylight (novel)

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Skylight
First edition (publ. Editorial Caminho)
AuthorJosé Saramago
Original titleClaraboia
TranslatorMargaret Jull Costa (2014)
LanguagePortuguese
Set inLisbon
PublisherEditorial Caminho
Publication date
2011
Publication placePortugal
Published in English
2014
Media typePrint
Pages398 (299 en.)

Skylight is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago.

Originally Saramago's second finished novel, the manuscript was submitted in 1953 and misplaced by the publisher. Upon its rediscovery 36 years later, Saramago decided to withhold its publication until after his death. Skylight was published in Portugal in 2011, one year after the writer's death, and features a foreword penned by Saramago's widow, Pilar del Río, detailing his response to its rediscovery. It was translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa and published in 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[1]

The novel explores the lives of various characters in a shabby Lisbon apartment building in the 1940s.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Broida, Mike (16 January 2015) José Saramago’s 'Skylight' The New York Times, Retrieved 1 February 2015.