# The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

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- Book: [The Gospel According to Jesus Christ](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago/the-gospel-according-to-jesus-christ) ([The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago/the-gospel-according-to-jesus-christ.md))
- Authors: [José Saramago](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-18-6046-684-7
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil – a kindly and necessary evil – but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth. ‘An original, wild and beautiful book’ Times Literary Supplement