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.
Subjects
- Clerks -- Fiction.
- Registers of births, etc. -- Fiction.
- Recording and registration -- Fiction.
- Vital statistics -- Fiction.
- Portuguese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.