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All The Names
  • Published: 1 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860467202
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99
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All The Names

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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
  • Published: 1 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860467202
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

José Saramago

JOSÉ DE SOUSA SARAMAGO, (November 1922 - June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. He was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament (EWP).
portrait photo of José Saramago

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The First Boat
An Unexpected Light
The Silence of Water
The Lizard
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Praise for All The Names

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

A novel that has soul, which Saramago offers to his readers with all his witty, intelligent, tender and magical generosity

Samantha Harvey, Independent