Todos os nomes

José Saramago First published 1997

About this book

Senhor Jose is a clerk at the Central Registry, where records are stored on the birth, marriage and death of all of the city's populace. Jose stumbles across a record for a woman he has never met and becomes consumed with finding out more about her. His quest for knowledge pushes him to perform in ways he never thought possible.

Subjects

clerks
collected works (single author, multi-form)
continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
fiction
fiction, general
portugal, fiction
portuguese fiction
recording and registration
registers of births
registers of births, etc
translations into english
vital statistics