Book Title: Newvintage All Names ISBN: 9781860467202 By Author(s):SARAMAGO JOSE By Publisher:RANDOM HOUSE UK Format:PB
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.
'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– a novel about identity and connection – has become stitched into mine' Samantha Harvey,Independent