All the Names

Title: All the Names
Author: José Saramago
ISBN: 9780156010597
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Translation
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Fiction: 1693612
Section: Fiction | Literary
Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

José Saramago's mesmerizing, classic narrative about the loneliness of individual lives and the universal need for human connection.

Senhor José 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 José 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 José Saramago in brilliant form.