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All The Names
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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?
A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago
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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.
All the Names is a novel about identity and connection. "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 has become stitched into mine," says Samantha Harvey, Independent.
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José Saramago's novel is celebrated for its soulful and generous storytelling, marked by wit, intelligence, and tender magic. It is noted for its unearthly beauty, offering freedom from the obvious and exuding profound serenity alongside benevolent humour. The book is described as both delightful and unsettling, featuring metaphorical labyrinths and false trails, and it skilfully intertwines themes of life and death.
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ISBN: 9781860467202
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: The Harvill Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 183g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Born in Portugal in 1922, Jose Saramago was one of the most important writers of his generation. He was in his fifties when he came to prominence as a novelist with the publication of Baltasar & Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, which included plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, including Blindness which was made into an acclaimed film. He has been translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died on 18 June 2010, shortly after the Portuguese publication of Cain.
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