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All the Names (Panther S.)
José Saramago
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Description for All the Names (Panther S.)
Paperback. Senhor Jose is a minor official in a registry office, with a passion for reconstructing people's lives from the data in archive documents. One woman's file is particularly intriguing. She is dead, and he decides to trace her life backwards, from death to birth. But can he bring her back to life? Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
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.
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860467202
SKU
V9781860467202
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About José Saramago
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel ... Read more
Reviews for All the Names (Panther S.)
A novel that has soul, which Saramago offers to his readers with all his witty, intelligent, tender and magical generosity
Samantha Harvey
Independent
Offers an unearthly, muted beauty; a freedom from the obvious, the ideological and trivial; an atmosphere of profound serenity, and a benevolent humor
Literary Review
Both delightful and unsettling which is perhaps ... Read more
Samantha Harvey
Independent
Offers an unearthly, muted beauty; a freedom from the obvious, the ideological and trivial; an atmosphere of profound serenity, and a benevolent humor
Literary Review
Both delightful and unsettling which is perhaps ... Read more