"Memorial do Convento" Author: [Portugal] José Saramago Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company Original title: Memorial do Convento

★ Representative work of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago

★ Won the Portuguese literature laureate award "Camões Literature Prize", and has been translated into more than 40 languages

★ After 20 years, the simplified Chinese revised version is now on the market!

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★ A fictional and highly original historical novel that rivals anything García Márquez wrote at his peak. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

★ Reading "The Monastery Chronicles" will make you understand: "The world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel." - "Library Journal"

★ A powerful novel that is both raunchy and noble, angry and tender. In it you will find history, comedy, surrealism, science fiction, magic and countless wonderful stories. - The Independent

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★ "The Monastery Chronicle" is a rich, multifaceted and multi-layered novel that uses historical, social and personal perspectives at the same time. Saramago uses this work to show the depth and brilliance of his imagination. ——Swedish Academy

★ Like Borges, Saramago is a free man, and his works fully demonstrate this freedom. Readers will be fascinated by "The Monastery Chronicles". - Harold Bloom

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Why, then, do we build churches and monasteries on earth, when the walls will crumble down and heaven itself is a cathedral, and St. Peter's in Rome is but a grain of sand on the beach? Because we do not understand that the earth is a cathedral and a monastery, a seat of faith and duty, of seclusion and freedom.

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This is an era of oppression and ignorance under the shadow of the Inquisition. Balthazar, a soldier who lost his left hand on the battlefield, and Blimunda, a girl with special vision, are invited by the crazy genius and Frankenstein priest Lorenzo to build a flying machine together. The flying machine did take off, but what happened next... Laughter is next to tears, calmness and anxiety are only one step away, and relaxation and fear are close neighbors. This is true for everyone's life and every period of history.

José Saramago (November 16, 1922 – June 18, 2010)

Portuguese writer. Born in 1922, he dropped out of high school due to poverty. He published his first novel at the age of 25, and became a literary magazine reporter from a car mechanic. He worked diligently for 30 years until he started writing novels again at the age of 55. The publication of "Chronicles of the Monastery" in 1982 won him international fame. His representative works include "The Siege of Lisbon", "Blindness" and "Recovery of Sight". He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998, becoming the first writer in the Portuguese-speaking world to receive this honor. He died in Lanzarote, Spain in 2010, and Portugal held a state funeral for him.