Saramago, Jos?

Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband in a small village just outside an imposing complex of shops, apartment blocks, offices, and sensation zones, which seems to be overtaking the more laidback culture Cipriano is used to.

Middle-aged bachelor Senhor Jose, a low-grade clerk in the Central Registry where certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death are kept, discovers the incomplete record of an unknown woman and becomes obsessed with the idea of finding her and making her known.

When a man knocks on the king's door and asks him for a boat, he finds himself setting out on a journey that will change history.

A young boy discovers what he believes is the largest flower in the world.

Chaos ensues when a city is struck with an epidemic of blindness in which its victims see only white, and a doctor who is locked in an asylum for the affliction is taken care of by his wife, who has retained her sight.

Translation of a Portuguese novel about the chaos that ensues when a city is struck with an epidemic of blindness in which its victims see only white.

A tale inspired by a true story follows the adventures of a neglected elephant who is given by King Jo?o III of Portugal to Archduke Maximilian as a wedding gift and who travels with the archduke through the war-torn storied cities of sixteenth-century Europe.