The Tale of the Unknown Island

Edição Assírio & Alvim de 1998
Special Edition published for the Portuguese Pavilion - EXPO '98: Notebooks of the Portuguese Pavilion.
Translated from the original in Portuguese by Christine Robinson.

Incluses four full color reproductions of drawings by Pedro Cabrita untitled september 1997, serigraphy and watercolor on paper.

Saramago (1947 to 2010) was the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear...