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The Double

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099461654

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Double

  • (Enemy)

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter...

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099461654

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Quite unlike anything else

    London Review of Books

  • A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own

    Phillip Hensher, Books of the Year, Spectator

  • A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer

    Daily Telegraph

  • The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and thriller rolled into one

    Independent

  • Indebted to Borges and with a nod to Auster, he manages to surpass both with the audacity and sheer erudition of his prose

    Catherine Taylor, The Guardian

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About the Author

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 Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

José Saramago

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