{"product_id":"memorial-del-convento-2022","title":"Memorial of the Convent","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022: A SARAMAGO YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exciting historical novel. A love story impossible to forget. A memorable female character.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Even a simple word is too much if it is life that is changing.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, there was a king who promised to build a convent in Mafra.\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, there were the people who built that convent.\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, there was a one-armed soldier and a woman who had powers.\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, there was a love story without words of love.\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, there was a priest who wanted to fly and died mad.\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, there was a musician.\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, there was a passarola.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce upon a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Many echoes this fascinating novel leaves in the memory, but, above all, its love story resonates over the rest of the action like a flute in the middle of a great orchestra.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Saramago makes an elusive reality understandable, with parables sustained by imagination, compassion, and irony.\"\u003cbr\u003eNobel Committee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A man with a sensibility and a capacity to see and understand far beyond what we common mortals generally see and understand.\"\u003cbr\u003eHéctor Abad Faciolince\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Saramago is an example, a most dignified style of life and literature, which demonstrates the possibility of navigating against the current [...]. His word has the value of an antifreeze, of a personal remedy against the gales of cynicism that surround us.\"\u003cbr\u003eLuis García Montero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I don't know, nor do I want to know, where Saramago got that diabolical narrative tone, harsh and pious at the same time, [...] that allows him to tell so close to the heart and at the same time so close to history.\"\u003cbr\u003eLuis Landero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Saramago writes novels about myths to demystify them, [...] always to address the reality that surrounds him, to deal with current problems that belong to everyone, and so that everything is clear from the beginning.\"\u003cbr\u003eRafael Conte, \u003ci\u003eBabelia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Like Günter Grass or Cees Nooteboom, Saramago aims to connect with an audience that transcends national boundaries.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"José Saramago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536065724664,"sku":"9788420460581","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/AL60581_7bb610e8-e9da-4904-ad43-2f83583af5d2.jpg?v=1671632617","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/memorial-del-convento-2022","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}