Skylight
By: Jose Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull, translator
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781846557330; 9781846557347
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Claraboia
Description: Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes and jewellery; and the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music.
Notes: Translation of: Claraboia.