Death at Intervals

The author's eccentric voice is as engaging as ever... a fitting cap to a body of work as playful as it is wise

Financial Times

With characteristic dry wit he proceeds to debunk the rosy romance of eternal life

The Times

This is a beautifully constructed novel, the tone detached, ironic and playful, perfectly maintained throughout

The Scotsman

Saramago has a light, graceful, ironic touch... the paraphernalia of magical realism

John Banville

In the craft of the sentence, José Saramago is one of the great originals... no one writes quite like Saramago, so solicitous and yet so magnificently free. He works as though cradling a thing of magic

Guardian

A fable-like tale which tips our world on its axis ... a beautiful book, which narrows down with elegance and assurance from wide-screen satire to a deeply strange love story, all the time probing the human condition with gentle compassion

Metro

A compelling work by a fine writer ... the unique Saramagoan style ... gives the impression of a thought experiment to which the writer is merely a catalyst. That impression is a carefully crafted one: true art conceals its art, wrote Ovid

New Statesman

A genial mix of satire, fantasy and the comically prosaic

James Urquhart, Financial Times

I wish more novelists writing in English exhibited this much intellectual ambition, and this much humanity and elegance in realising it

Chris Ross, The Guardian

A beautiful, hopeful novel

Observer