The notebook
By: Jose  Saramago ; translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Daniel Hahn ; [with a new foreword by Umberto Eco]
Contributors: Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948-; Hahn, Daniel; Eco, Umberto
Edition: Updated pbk. ed.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781844677016
Subjects: Blogs; Portuguese Authors; Diaries
Work titles: Caderno
Description: Beginning on the eve of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, the author evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, meditates on his favorites authors, dissects the financial crisis, deplores Israel's punishment of Gaza, and reflects on the rise of Barack Obama.