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869.342 SAR Death at intervals. | 869.342 SAR Raised from the ground | 869.342 SAR All the names | 869.342 SAR Cave | 869.342 SAR Elephant's journey | 869.342 SAR Blindness | 870.9003 AUE Literary language & its public in late Latin antiquity and in the Middle Ages |
Translated from the Portuguese.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marcal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartment blocks, offices, and sensation zones. Marcal works there as a security guard, and Cipriano drives him to work each day before delivering his own humble pots and jugs. On one such visit, he is told not to make any more deliveries until further notice. People prefer plastic, he is told; it lasts longer and doesn't break." "Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds of figurines, and Cipriano and Marta set to work. In the meantime, Cipriano meets a young widow at the graves of their recently departed spouses, and a hesitant romance begins.
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