Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/10/2005
ISBN: 9780099461654
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £9.99
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
Published: 06/10/2005
ISBN: 9780099461654
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £9.99
Quite unlike anything else
A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own
A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer
The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and thriller rolled into one
Indebted to Borges and with a nod to Auster, he manages to surpass both with the audacity and sheer erudition of his prose