Death Interruptions - José Saramago

On the following day, no one died, and because the event was completely contrary to the customs of life, it caused enormous confusion in the souls, and this is an understandable effect by all standards, as it is enough to remember that there is not a single report in the forty volumes of universal history, not even about one case, that a similar phenomenon had ever occurred, and that a whole day had passed, with all its forty-eight hours, counted between daytime and nighttime, morning and evening, without a single death by illness, or a fatal fall, or complete suicide, nothing of anything, like the word nothing. Number of pages: 238 Year of publication: 2019 Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications