All the Names

by Jose Saramago

Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

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A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago

Senhor Jose 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, Jose 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

  • ISBN10 0156010593
  • ISBN13 9780156010597
  • Publish Date 5 October 2001 (first published 2 September 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Mariner Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 272
  • Language English