Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/06/2000
ISBN: 9781860467202
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
Weight: 207g
RRP: £9.99
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
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/06/2000
ISBN: 9781860467202
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
Weight: 207g
RRP: £9.99
"A novel that has soul, which Saramago offers to his readers with all his witty, intelligent, tender and magical generosity"
"Offers an unearthly, muted beauty; a freedom from the obvious, the ideological and trivial; an atmosphere of profound serenity, and a benevolent humor"
"Both delightful and unsettling which is perhaps the mark of true literature"
"A tantalizing novel...shifting and teasing, full of metaphorical labyrinths and false trails"
"It is the marriage of the living and the dying...that so strongly characterizes the writing of Jose Saramago"