All the Names - Couverture souple

Saramago, Jose

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1860466435 ISBN 13 : 9781860466434

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 1999

Synopsis

Senhor Jose is an official in a registry office, with a passion for unearthing every detail and reconstructing people's lives from the bare data in the archive documents. One file in particular challenges him: a woman's date and place of birth are missing, and so he begins his research in earnest.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"A tantalizing novel...shifting and teasing, full of metaphorical labyrinths and false trails" (Herald)

"Offers an unearthly, muted beauty; a freedom from the obvious, the ideological and trivial; an atmosphere of profound serenity, and a benevolent humor" (Literary Review)

"It is the marriage of the living and the dying...that so strongly characterizes the writing of Jose Saramago" (New Statesman)

"The Swedish Academy's citation called his novels "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony." It is a description which perfectly captures his latest novel" (The Times)

"Both delightful and unsettling which is perhaps the mark of true literature" (Anthony Daniels Sunday Telegraph)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one - of an apparently ordinary woman - will transform his life.

By day Senhor José labours in the labyrinthine stacks of the city's central registry. By night he ferrets for facts about the famous, compiling his own archive of births, deaths and marriages. One day he chances upon an index card of an ordinary woman whose details hold as much fascination for him as any celebrity's. Striking forth from the regimentation of his daily life, José starts to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an oblivion deeper than the grave.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1860466435
• ISBN 13: 9781860466434
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Terminal Video; n.pederzini@terminaldistribuzione.com; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; Italie