Saramago, Jose – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:35:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Saramago, Jose – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Gospel According To Jesus Christ https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/gospel-according-to-jesus-christ/ Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/gospel-according-to-jesus-christ/ Saramago’s Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil – a kindly and necessary evil – but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth.

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