Death with Interruptions
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Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramagos brilliant novel poses the questionwhat happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death?On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of coursec...
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Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramagos brilliant novel poses the questionwhat happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death?On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of coursecauses consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebrationflags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits homefamilies are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots. Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small d, became human and were to fall in love?
Detaljer
Forlag
Mariner Books
ISBN
9780547247885
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
256
Udgivelsesdato
02-09-2009
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3393671
EAN nr.
9780547247885
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.