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    "description": "<p>Called \u2018the book lost and found in time\u2019 by its author, <i>Skylight </i>is one of Saramago\u2019s earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers\u2019 offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English.</p><p> Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There\u2019s the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music; and the beautiful typist whose boss can\u2019t keep his eyes off her. Poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip and love \u2013 <i>Skylight</i> brings together all the joys and grief of ordinary people.</p>",
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