Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Lethal But Not Morbid

A great theological/philosophical book of ideas about how human beings deal with death - as a concept as well as their own individual fate. Saramago knows what most of us know but don't know how to say. He knows how politicians and academics and policemen and peasants talk and what they mean when they talk, which is often the opposite of what they say. And his gentle irony accepts the fact that we all lie by inevitable omission every time we utter a sound. So death for example may be lethal but perhaps it is not morbid. Perhaps it too can be embraced in life.

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