The Double

In the pacy denouement the consequences of the hero's actions are played out with surprising deftness... [An] extraordinarily bold and peculiar romance

The Times

Quite unlike anything else

London Review of Books

A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own

Phillip Hensher, Books of the Year, Spectator

Indebted to Borges and with a nod to Auster, he manages to surpass both with the audacity and sheer erudition of his prose

Catherine Taylor, The Guardian

Cleverly written and left me with lots to think about...a very good book

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A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer

Daily Telegraph

Thought-provoking, scrupulously constructed and narrated with buoyant high spirits

Times Literary Supplement

The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and thriller rolled into one

Independent

Written with gusto, wit an imaginative energy...an urgent and topical masterpiece

Literary Review