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Carla
Apr 08, 2009 rated it it was amazing
A deceptively simple tale from a Nobel Prize winner. Here is a case where the whole is more than a sum of its parts. That is to say that Saramago is writing on more than one level. He uses the small events in a potter's life to illustrate timeless truths about human nature and their dealings with each other. The opening is vaguely sinister making things feel constricted and surrounded and cut off. Each character reflects this isolation in a different way. Marcal, the son-in-law says, "Even the d ...more
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