Skylight (novel)

Skylight is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago.

Skylight

First edition (publ. Editorial Caminho)
Author	José Saramago
Original title	Claraboia
Translator	Margaret Jull Costa (2014)
Language	Portuguese
Set in	Lisbon
Publisher	Editorial Caminho
Publication date	2011
Publication place	Portugal
Published in English	2014
Media type	Print
Pages	398 (299 en.)

Originally Saramago's second finished novel, the manuscript was submitted in 1953 and misplaced by the publisher. Upon its rediscovery 36 years later, Saramago decided to withhold publication until after his death. Skylight was published in Portugal in 2011, one year after the writer's death, and features a foreword penned by Saramago's widow, Pilar del Río, detailing his response to its rediscovery. It was translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa and published in 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.^[1]

The novel explores the lives of various characters in a shabby Lisbon apartment building in the 1940s.^[1]