Overview
A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago
Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon''s central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one – of an apparently ordinary woman – will transform his life. Breaking away from his strict routine, José resolves to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an oblivion deeper than the grave.
''When a very good book finds us at just the right moment in life, it can become stitched into our own identity. All the Names – a novel about identity and connection – has become stitched into mine'' Samantha Harvey, Independent
- | Author: Jose Saramago
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2000
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- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781860467202
- | ISBN-10: 1860467202
