Power outages

Publisher: Maskelliani Publishing Number of pages: 239 This novel is almost an epic in praise of death and "Saramago" who writes without resentment or hatred to the extent that he invites us to love death. He places before us, from the beginning of the pages, a shocking fantastical surprise: "The next day, no one died." Death has stopped in a small country — with no name — and its inhabitants no longer die, and their sick remain as they are. At first, it may seem wonderful to those longing for immortality, but "Saramago" quickly clarifies that it is a catastrophe threatening humanity. The government cannot deal with this unusual situation, and the pension system has collapsed, hospitals and nursing homes are no longer sufficient, and funeral and burial institutions have gone bankrupt. The absence of death has caused unprecedented chaos that societies have never known before, and humanity must accept it as the other face of life. A person cannot live without death, although it appears as an apparent contradiction to life, but in reality, we must die for life to continue.