Skylight: Jose Saramago

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There`s the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world; and the beautiful typist whose boss can`t keep his eyes off her.

Poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip and love - Skylight brings together the joys and grief of ordinary people. One of his earliest novels, it provides an entry into Saramago`s universe but was lost for decades and published, as per his wishes, after his death.