The Gospel According to Jesus Christ is the book that got author Jose Saramago banished from his native Portugal. It's the story of Jesus Christ - a story of Jesus Christ because there can no longer be just one story of Him. Portraying Jesus as a complex and flawed man, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ describes the entire life of Jesus Christ, focusing on His young adulthood, from the age of 14 until He meets Mary of Magdalene, although it also describes His conception, birth, and first few days on Earth.
Needless to say, the Roman Catholic Church hated this work. I see it as akin to Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, a religious work written by someone not of that religion, as paradoxical as that may sound. Saramago himself is not religious and of course not a Christian. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994, and this work played heavily in the judges' decision to give him that prize.
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