Death with Interruptions（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This causes
consternation among politicians, religious leaders, and doctors.
Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially
celebration: they have achieved eternal life. Then reality hits
home, in this latest novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author.

　　Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago’s brilliant new novel poses
the question — what happens when the grim reaper decides there
will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one
dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians,
religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general
public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration–flags
are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have
achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality
hits home–families are left to care for the permanently dying,
life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are
reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and
parrots.Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone
with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment:
What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small “d,
” became human and were to fall in love?