Author:José Saramago
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
A novel that has soul, which Saramago offers to his readers with all his witty, intelligent, tender and magical generosity
—— Samantha Harvey , IndependentOffers an unearthly, muted beauty; a freedom from the obvious, the ideological and trivial; an atmosphere of profound serenity, and a benevolent humor
—— Literary ReviewBoth delightful and unsettling which is perhaps the mark of true literature
—— Anthony Daniels , Sunday TelegraphA tantalizing novel...shifting and teasing, full of metaphorical labyrinths and false trails
—— HeraldIt is the marriage of the living and the dying...that so strongly characterizes the writing of Jose Saramago
—— New StatesmanThe 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 TimesUtterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels
—— TatlerPhilip Roth’s American Pastoral is one of those books you know is going to change you in some profound way shortly after you start reading it and it did for me. I read it last summer and nothing has quite surpassed it for me since. A very painful read.
—— Angea Nagle , Irish Times[American Pastoral] is gorgeously written with passages of breathtaking beauty filled with wisdom and pathos
—— Sarfraz Manzoor , Week
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