by Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), José Saramago (Author)
In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally. Death does return eventually, but with a new, courteous approach - delivering violet warning letters to her victims. But what can death do when a letter is unexpectedly returned?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 02 Nov 2017
ISBN 10: 1784871788
ISBN 13: 9781784871789
Book Overview: 'Death at Intervals is a delight- witty, clever, humane, light in tone, profoundly serious in matter' - Scotsman