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All the Names Paperback - 2001
by Jos? Saramago
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Portuguese novelist Jos Saramago introduces Senhor Jos, a clerk in the city's Central Registry and collector of clippings of the famous and notorious, who becomes obsessed with a young woman after coming across her birth certificate.
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Details
- Title All the Names
- Author Jos? Saramago
- Binding Paperback
- Edition TRA
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 264
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0156010593I4N00
- ISBN 9780156010597
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Death/Dying
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Summary
Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would ever have wished.
The loneliness of people's lives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love-all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of José Saramago in brilliant form.
The loneliness of people's lives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love-all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of José Saramago in brilliant form.
First line
Above the door frame is a long, narrow plaque of enamelled metal.