245 pages
English language
Published April 4, 2001 by Harcourt.
All the names
José Saramago: All the names (2001, Harcourt)
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Senhor Jose is a clerk at the Central Registry, where records are stored on the birth, marriage and death of all of the city's populace. Jose stumbles across a record for a woman he has never met and becomes consumed with finding out more about her. His quest for knowledge pushes him to perform in ways he never thought possible.
Senhor Jose is a clerk at the Central Registry, where records are stored on the birth, marriage and death of all of the city's populace. Jose stumbles across a record for a woman he has never met and becomes consumed with finding out more about her. His quest for knowledge pushes him to perform in ways he never thought possible.
Subjects
- Clerks -- Fiction.
- Registers of births, etc. -- Fiction.
- Recording and registration -- Fiction.
- Vital statistics -- Fiction.
- Portuguese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.