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In his controversial novel The Gospel According to Jesus, Nobel Prize winner José Saramago tells the life of Jesus and the story of Christianity, faithfully to the chronology in the holy books, but from a different perspective.
While reflecting his weaknesses, anger, excitement, indecisiveness as a child and a teenager, starting from his conception, and his love affair with Mary Magdalene, into his novel, he shows Jesus as a human being rather than the son of God and a prophet. It lifts the veil of holiness over Jesus and God and thus paves the way for asking questions and questioning. A dark parable with violent acts committed in the name of religion and belief; This novel, a worldly bible with its surprising richness and depth, caused Saramago to leave his country.
"An original, wild and very beautiful book."
-John Butt-
Times Literary Supplement
"The author's best book... Saramago's novel is an extraordinary, touching, heretical narrative filled with intense compassion for the suffering of humanity."
-James Wood-New Republic
"Illuminated with wild intelligence, gentle passion and poetry."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review -
