| All the Names Contributor(s): Saramago, José (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156010593 ISBN-13: 9780156010597 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.52" W x 8.02" (0.55 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Senhor Jos 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 Jos 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 Jos Saramago in brilliant form. |
Contributor Bio(s): Saramago, Jose: - JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Costa, Margaret Jull: -MARGARET JULL COSTA has established herself as the premier translator of Portuguese literature into English today. |