Manual of Painting and Calligraphy: A Novel

First English Edition, First Printing. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Saramago was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as 'the most gifted novelist alive in the world today,' and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon." More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages.

Fine in original black cloth and just about fine dust jacket, a touch faded at the spine and with a tiny nick at the head of the spine. Octavo. 14.5 x 22 cm. ix, 223 pp. A lovely copy.