Baltasar and Blimunda

Sheer brilliance. In terms of an author toiling with honest description and putting heart and soul in the vacant word-bodies, here is a reading which without doubt makes the reader toil too, but one of the many rewards I received by reading it was a meeting with few of the most wonderful characters I have come across. The book ends brilliantly. Again, like most Saramago books, it ends to begin again. Marvellous.